Parents Of Record-Breaking NINE Babies Return Home After 19 Months In Hospital

Parents Of Record-Breaking NINE Babies Return Home After 19 Months In Hospital

Parents of a record-breaking nine babies are said to be ‘absolutely delighted’ to finally return home after 19 months spent living around an intensive care clinic.

Mother Halima Cissé, 27, and her husband Abdelkader Arby, 36, from Mali were on Tuesday preparing to meet family and friends in the country’s capital Bamako, and they will then head on to Timbuktu.

It follows almost two years at the specialist Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca, Morocco, following the birth of their nonuplets in May 2021.

‘It’s been a long wait, with plenty of tears, but the babies are now all fighting fit, and everybody is delighted to be coming home,’ a close family friend in Mali told Mail Online.

‘They are getting lots of support from the Malian government and – God Willing – are now going to enjoy a lovely new home in Timbuktu.

‘It has been specially designed for a very big family and is equipped with everything they need.

‘The kids have been getting stronger every day, and really get on well with each other – they are very cute indeed.

‘There was lots of emotion when they left the clinic in Casablanca – they viewed the staff there as family – but going home as soon as possible was always the plan.’

The five girls and four boys now have the Guinness World Record for the most children to survive a single delivery, and will be joining their older sister, Soda, four – making 10 kids in all.

The nonuplets were delivered prematurely by Caesarean-Section surgery and beat a previous record set by American ‘Octomum’ Nadya Suleman, who had eight babies in 2009.