{"id":121499,"date":"2021-05-05T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121499"},"modified":"2021-05-05T18:00:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T10:00:24","slug":"malian-woman-gives-birth-to-nine-babies-in-a-moroccan-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121499","title":{"rendered":"Malian woman gives birth to nine babies in a Moroccan hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/25-year-old-Malian-safely-gives-birth-to-nine-babies-in-Morocco-1251397?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/146\/14648792.295.jpg\" alt=\"Nonuplets are extremely rare in medical practice\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Nonuplets are extremely rare in medical practice<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BAMAKO, May 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A Malian woman has given birth to nonuplets (nine babies), in what would be an extremely rare case.<br><br>Halima Cisse, 25, gave birth on Tuesday to five girls and four boys in a Moroccan hospital where she had been admitted, the Malian Health Minister Fanta Siby said in a statement.<br><br>The deliveries were done through Caesarean section.<br><br>Cisse had been expected to give birth to septuplets (seven babies) based on the ultrasound scans done in Mali and Morocco that apparently did not detect the two extra babies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, Dr. Siby said the newborns and the mother \u201care all doing well\u201d. They are expected to return home in several weeks\u2019 time.<br><br>She congratulated the medical teams in Mali and Morocco, \u201cwhose professionalism is at the origin of the happy outcome of this pregnancy\u201d.<br><br>Cisse\u2019s pregnancy has fascinated the West African nation and attracted the attention of its leaders \u2013 with authorities having flown her to Morocco when she needed specialist care.<br><br>A Moroccan health ministry spokesman, Rachid Koudhari, said that he had no knowledge of such a multiple birth happening in the country. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nonuplets are extremely rare in medical practice BAMAKO, May 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A Malian woman has given birth to nonuplets (nine babies), in what would be an extremely rare case. Halima Cisse, 25, gave birth on Tuesday to five girls and four boys in a Moroccan hospital where she had been admitted, the Malian Health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":121500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121499"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}