Can you have sextuplets naturally?

It's very rare for such high-order pregnancies to happen naturally, without the help of fertility treatments. "The chance for high-multiple gestations — four and above — to happen spontaneously, is extremely, extremely rare," said Dr.
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Have there ever been natural sextuplets?

Once an extremely rare phenomenon, fertility treatments have made multiple births slightly more common today. But conceiving sextuplets without the use of fertility treatments is extremely rare. In fact, the odds of giving birth to sextuplets spontaneously are one in 4.7 billion.
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What is the largest multiple birth naturally conceived?

Very high-order multiple births

Multiple births of as many as 9 babies have been born alive; In May 2021, the Cissé nonuplets were born in Morocco to Halima Cissé, a 25-year-old woman from Mali. As of May 2023, two years since their births, all 9 are still living and reportedly in good health.
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Is it possible to give birth to sextuplets?

The Woman's Hospital said the odds of having sextuplets were estimated at one in 4.7 billion. Sextuplet births are extremely rare. One mother of sextuplets in Northern Ireland, who gave birth in 2009, said doctors advised her to abort several of the foetuses because of the risks of the multiple pregnancy.
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Can you naturally get pregnant with 6 babies?

It's very rare for such high-order pregnancies to happen naturally, without the help of fertility treatments. "The chance for high-multiple gestations — four and above — to happen spontaneously, is extremely, extremely rare," said Dr.
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How rare is having sextuplets?

At least 80 and possibly as many as 175 births in the world have resulted from a pregnancy involving 6 babies. A sextuplet or higher pregnancy will likely go to 29-30 weeks gestation or earlier. Around 40-50 births in the world have resulted from a pregnancy involving 7 babies.
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What is the oldest person to conceive naturally?

The oldest verified mother to conceive naturally (listed currently as of 26 January 2017 in the Guinness Records) is Dawn Brooke (Guernsey); she conceived a son at the age of 59 in 1997.
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Has anyone ever had quintuplets naturally?

The Braham quintuplets (born 31 December 1967) were the first quintuplets to be born in Australia. They were conceived naturally and born to Pat and Roger Braham of Tenterfield, New South Wales.
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How many babies can a human have at once naturally?

How many babies can fit inside a pregnant woman? There's no scientific limit, but the largest reported number of fetuses in one womb was 15.
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What's the longest someone has been pregnant?

But one woman was pregnant for 375 days. When Beulah Hunter's baby girl, Penny Diana, was finally born on the 21st of February in 1945, she was almost 100 days overdue. Although this is the longest pregnancy ever recorded, pregnancies of 42 weeks, which is around ten months, are relatively common.
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How did Jon and Kate Plus 8 get pregnant?

"Jon and I both knew we always wanted to have kids," Kate says. "We weren't able to get pregnant on our own, so we turned to fertility treatments." In 2000, Kate gave birth to twin girls, Cara and Mady. Then, the couple decided to try for one more child.
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Are natural triplets rare?

While the probability of conceiving triplets naturally is around one in every 10,000 pregnancies, the odds of those triplets being identical is at least a one-in-a-million chance. Cordaro welcomed all three girls, Claire, Ella and Lily, at 31 weeks.
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What is the most births at one time?

On 4 May 2021, nine children were born to Halima Cisse (Mali) in the Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca, Morocco. This is the first known incidence of nonpulets surviving birth. The record previously belonged to eight babies born in 2009 to Nadya Suleman (USA) aka "Octomom".
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How long is the average pregnancy with sextuplets?

The average gestation of a sextuplet pregnancy is 29.1 weeks (ranging 25 - 32 weeks) The average weight gain for a sextuplet pregnancy is 55.5 lbs (ranging 31 - 80 lbs) 71.4% of sextuplet mothers in this study received steroid injections prior to delivery.
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What is the largest natural multiple birth?

The Guinness World Records for most children delivered at a single birth to survive is currently held by Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to six boys and two girls in California, US, in 2009. Last month, a 25-year-old Malian woman had given birth to nine babies, two more than doctors had detected during medical scans.
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Are any of Dionne Quints still alive?

All nine of the siblings of the quintuplets have died, the most recent in 2021. As of 2024, there are two surviving sisters, Annette and Cécile. Yvonne died in 2001.
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Has anyone had triplets naturally?

Naturally conceived triplets occur in about one and every 10,000 pregnancies.
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What's the rarest age to get pregnant?

A woman's peak reproductive years are between the late teens and late 20s. By age 30, fertility (the ability to get pregnant) starts to decline. This decline happens faster once you reach your mid-30s. By 45, fertility has declined so much that getting pregnant naturally is unlikely.
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Which actress had a baby at 55?

After Welcoming a Baby at 55, Brigitte Nielsen Warns Women That Waiting Can Be 'Very Expensive' (Exclusive)
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Has anyone conceived naturally at 40?

By age 35, the chance of a successful natural pregnancy drops to 10-15% per cycle, and by 40, the chances hover around 5%. This does not mean that getting pregnant after 40 is impossible, just that it will likely take longer. That's why the recommendation for considering fertility testing after 40 is only 6 months.
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How many babies can a woman have in her lifetime?

One study estimated a woman can have around 15 pregnancies in a lifetime. And depending on how many babies she births for each pregnancy, she'd probably have around 15-30 children. But the "most prolific mother ever," according to Guinness World Records, was Mrs. Feodor Vassilyev in 19th century Russia.
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How many kids can you have at once naturally?

If you're carrying two babies, they are called twins. Three babies that are carried during one pregnancy are called triplets. You can also carry more than three babies at one time (high-order multiples). There are typically more risks linked to a multiple pregnancy than a singleton (carrying only one baby) pregnancy.
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Who is more likely to have twins?

Race – African-American women are more likely to have twins than any other race. Asian and Native Americans have the lowest twinning rates. Caucasian women, especially those over age 35, have the highest rate of higher-order multiple births (triplets or more).
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