Guinness Book of Records
Motherhood
Most children
The largest number of children born to one mother, according to official data, is 69. According to reports made in 1782, between 1725 and 1765. The wife of a Russian peasant Fyodor Vasiliev gave birth 27 times, giving birth to twins 16 times, triplets 7 times and 4 twins 4 times. Of these, only 2 children died in infancy.
Of our contemporaries, Leontina Albina (or Alvina) from San Antonio, Chile, who in 1943-81 is considered the most prolific mother. gave birth to 55 children. As a result of the first 5 pregnancies, she gave birth to triplets, and exclusively male.
Giving birth the most times
A record 38 births are said to have been given to Elizabeth Greenhill of Abbots Langley, c. Hertfordshire, UK. She had 39 children - 32 daughters and 7 sons - and died in 1681.
The oldest woman in labor
At the age of 63, on July 18, 1994, Rosanna Dalla Corta from Viterbo, Italy, gave birth to a boy; before that, she had undergone treatment for infertility. Arceli Keh, 63, also gave birth in 1996, according to the University of Southern California.
newborns
The heaviest newborn in a singleton pregnancy
The heaviest of the surviving newborns, of which official information is available, weighed 10.2 kg. It was a boy born in 1955 to Carmelina Fedele of Aversa, Italy.In the UK this century, the highest birth weight (7 kg) was Guy Warwick Carr, born in 1992.
Newborn with the smallest weight in a singleton pregnancy
at the Loyola University Medical Center, Illinois, USA, June 27, 1989, according to official reports, as a result of premature birth, a girl weighing only 281
The most premature baby
128 days prematurely, Brenda Gill's son, James Gill, was born on May 20, 1987 in Ottawa, Ontario Ave., Canada. The weight of the newborn was 624 g.
The longest intervals between childbirth in multiple pregnancies
Peggy Lynn from Huntington, pc. Pennsylvania! United States, gave birth to a girl, Hanna, on November 11, 1995, and the second of the twins, Erica, was only 84 days old (February 2, 1996).The longest separation of two twins
Iris Jones and Aro Campbell (b. 1914) met after a 75-year separation.
Multiple births
Siamese twins
United twins began to be called “Siamese” after Chang and Eng Bunkers were born fused in the sternum on May 11, 1811 in the Meklong area in Siam (Thailand). They married Sarah and Adelaide Yates of pc. North Carolina, USA, and had 10 and 12 children, respectively. They died in 1874, and with a difference of 3 hours.
The most extreme form of this phenomenon is a human being with two heads, four arms and two legs. (dicephales tetrabrachius dipus). The only recorded case of this kind is Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapov, who were born in January 1950. in USSR.
The first successful operation to separate Siamese twins was performed on December 14, 1952 at Mount Sinai Hospital, Cleveland, pc. Ohio, USA, Dr. Jacques S. Geller.
The largest number of multiple births in one family
Maddalena Pomegranate from Italy (b. 1839) had triplets born 15 times.
There is also information about the birth on May 29, 1971 in Philadelphia, pc. Pennsylvania, USA, and in May 1977 in Bagarhat, Bangladesh, 11 twins. In both cases, no child survived.
centenarians
Oldest person (documented)
In Arles, France, in August 1997, 122-year-old Jeanne Louise Calmat, born February 21, 1875, died. To date, the oldest person is Marie Louise Febron-Meyler, Quebec Ave, Canada, who is 116 years old.
The oldest twin
February 14, 1803 in Effington, pc. Virginia, USA, Eli Shadrak Phipps and John Meshak Phipps were born. Eli was the first to die at the age of 108. It was February 23, 1911.
The oldest triplets
Faith, Hope and Charity Cardwell were born in Elm Mott, pc. Texas, USA, May 18, 1899. Faith was the first to die on October 2, 1994 at the age of 95.
The oldest quadruple
Adolf, Anna-Maria, Emma and Elisabeth Ottmann were born on May 5, 1912. in Munich, Germany. Adolf was the first to die on March 17, 1992, at the age of 79.
Descendants
Most offspring
In countries where polygamy is legal, a person can have an uncountable number of children. It is said that the Sultan of Morocco Moulay Ismail (1672-1727) by 1703 had 525 sons and 342 daughters, and in 1721, when he was 49 years old, he became the father of the 700th son.
On the day he passed away at the age of 96 in October 1992, Samuel S. Maeth of Freiberg, NY. Pennsylvania, USA, had a total of 824 living descendants: 11 children, 97 grandchildren, 634 great-grandchildren and 82 great-great-grandchildren.
Descendants spanning the largest number of generations
Augusta Bunge from pcs. Wisconsin, USA Became a great-great-great-great-grandmother on January 21, 1989 at the age of 110 when her great-great-great-granddaughter had a son, Christopher John Bollig.
Most living ancestors
At the time of her birth in 1982, Megan Sue Austin, Bar Harbor, pc. Maine, USA, had 19 direct ascendants, which included a full set of grandparents, great-grandparents, and 5 great-great-grandparents relatives.
Most fertile pregnancies
Dr. Gennaro Montanino, Rome, Italy, claims to have removed, in July 1971, the embryos of 10 girls and 5 boys from the uterus of a 35-year-old woman who was 4 months pregnant. This unique case of 15-fertility was the result of infertility pills.
9 children - the largest number in one pregnancy - were born on June 13, 1971 by Geraldine Broadrick in Sydney, Australia. 5 boys and 4 girls were born: 2 boys were stillborn, and none of the rest survived more than 6 days.
The birth of 10 twins (2 boys and 8 girls) is known from reports from Spain (1924), China (1936) and Brazil (April 1946).
infectious diseases
"Ancient" diseases
Already in 1350 BC. in ancient Egypt, cases of leprosy were described.
Egyptian mummies dating back to the 20th Dynasty (1250-1000 B.C.) show signs of a liver and kidney infection called schistosomiasis (Tuberculosis Schistosomiasis).
Plague and cholera are mentioned in the biblical Old Testament.
The “newest” disease
Recently, an infectious disease has been discovered, which is a new type of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, leading to dementia. In all likelihood, the disease is caused by a tiny fragment of a protein called a prion. It is transmitted to humans from infected bovine spongiform encephalitis (BSE) in cattle.
Most widespread disease
The most common infectious disease is the common cold, a disease of the upper respiratory tract. There are at least 40 different viruses (transmitted either through the air or through direct contact) that cause symptoms such as sneezing, coughing, sore throat, watery eyes, runny nose, headache, mild fever.
The rarest disease
The rarest disease now is smallpox. In May 1978, the World Health Organization (WHO) did not report a single case of smallpox in the past 6 months. The last fatal case of smallpox occurred in August 1978. A photographer working in a laboratory at the University of Birmingham, UK, became infected from a sample stored for research purposes.
The most dangerous diseases
A mortality rate of over 50% is seen in Lassa fever, an epidemic disease caused by a rare West African virus. Very high mortality was also noted in cercopithecine hemorrhagic fever (Marburg virus disease) and Ebola fever.
Since 1900, cholera has claimed an estimated 20 million lives in India. During outbreaks, if left untreated, the mortality rate can be as high as 50%.
Less common is yellow fever, a viral disease carried by mosquitoes. According to available reports, 10-90% of the sick people die from it.
The most dangerous malaria infection
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Intrauterine infection and immunity
Immunology of endometriosis
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The historical record belongs to the Russian Vasiliev family, who lived in the 18th century. The wife of Fyodor Vasiliev, Shuisky, gave birth in her life to 69. The woman to this day is the record holder of childbearing and is listed in the Guinness Book.
For more than 200 years, no one in the world has been able to repeat or beat this record. The advantage of the peasant woman was her genetics, which made it possible to produce children in 27 births. Vasilyeva gave birth to twins 16 times (another world record), triplets and four quadruplets were born seven times. Unfortunately, only 67 children survived to adulthood.
It is worth noting that this record is not the final point for Fedor Vasiliev himself. The peasant was married twice. In his first marriage, he had 20 more children. As a result, there were 87 children in a large family. This fact was appreciated even by Catherine the Great, and information about such a large offspring is included in the book "Additions to the Acts of Emperor Peter the Great."
Historians are still arguing about the birth order of the children of the peasant Vasiliev. However, the facts gleaned from house books and issues of the Vedomosti newspaper testify to the excessive fertility of the second wife.
The largest families of our time
If the record of the peasant woman Vasilyeva to this day has not been beaten by any woman, Fedor Vasilyev himself, with a noticeable advantage, was ahead of the modern Hindu Zion Chan (Sion Khan). A polygamist will be born to 94 children.
An Indian man was able to conceive so many children thanks to his wives - Zion Chan has 39 of them. A huge family lives in a common multi-storey building. The wives of sons and grandchildren of the father-hero live in it. According to conservative estimates, about 180 people live in the house.
According to the father of the family, they begin to prepare for dinner in their house before breakfast. As a rule, wives take part in cooking. To feed so many people, more than a dozen chickens and several carts of vegetables are spent on one meal.
In those countries where polygamy is prohibited, the records are distinguished by "modesty". Leontina Albina, a resident of Chile, came closest to the Vasilyevsky record. She managed to give birth to 55 children and was also listed in the Book of Records.
In modern Russia, there are heroes of childbearing. Today they are Elena and Alexander Shishkin. A Pentecostal family (a branch of Christianity where abortion is strictly prohibited) gave birth to 20 children. Nineteen of them still live with their parents, and the eldest son already has his own family and three kids.
Americans Bob and Michelle Duggar, active supporters of Christianity, did not think about a large family. Initially, their plans included giving life to two or three children. However, after the birth of her first baby and subsequent contraception, the woman suffered a miscarriage that almost cost her her life. After that, the husband and wife decided not to interfere with "God's plans", and surrendered to the will of fate. As a result, they became one of the largest families in America, having given birth and raised 19 children. There could have been more babies, but Michelle's three births ended in the death of babies.
The purpose of a woman is motherhood. And almost all women in the world go through this difficult and at the same time joyful path - the birth and upbringing of children. For some, this path is accompanied by interesting records.
1. Mother who gave birth to 2 pairs of different-colored twins
Alison Spooner, from the British city of Fleet, gave birth to two daughters in 2001. Lauren looks like her mother - she has red hair, white skin and blue eyes. And the dark-skinned brunette Hiley looks like her father, the Indian Dean.
Doctors then said that this happens once every few years. However, the second pair of twins that were born to the Spooners also has a different skin color.
The younger girls had breathing problems when they were born. So they were placed in separate pressure chambers, says Dean. - Then we saw them together. And they realized that they had created a natural phenomenon again.
Mia and Leah were born on November 13, 2008, a few weeks premature. The first months I spent with my mother in the hospital. Currently, healthy girls are already at home. In the family they are called Marshmallow and Chocolate.
I think no one doubts that our family is special, says Alison.
2. The mother who gave birth to the tiniest baby in the world.
Mahajabeen Sheikh gave birth to Ramasha Rahman on September 19, 2004. The child weighed 243.81 grams at birth, his body length was only 10 cm. Ramash became the smallest newborn in the world. The baby was born at 25 weeks pregnant.
Prior to Ramashi's birth, the tiniest child to survive the birth was Madeline Mann, born in 1989, who weighed 37 grams more than Ramashi.
Ramashi has a twin sister and her birth weight was 567 grams.
According to the Lyol University Medical Center, the girl is now alive and well.
3. The oldest mom in the world
Indian Rayo Devi Lohan (Rajo Devi Lohan) became the first mother at 70 years old, after 40 years of unsuccessful attempts to get pregnant. The child was born in 2008 and feels great, of course, his mother is going to breastfeed him up to 3 years!
The largest mother in history
The largest mother in the world is our compatriot, the wife of a native of the Shuya district, a peasant Fyodor Vasiliev. The first twins in their family were born in 1725 and then for forty years the great woman in labor gave her husband 69 children and never children were born one at a time. In a peasant family, 17 twins, 7 triplets and 4 quadruplets were born. The number of twins is also a world record.
5. The oldest mother who gave birth to twins
The irresistible desire to have a son turned into double happiness for 70-year-old Omkari Panwar! She gave birth to twins. In order to artificially conceive a child, the family sold and mortgaged almost all their property. The woman already had two daughters and five grandchildren, but 77-year-old husband Charan Singh Panwar insisted on an heir and as a result received as many as two.
But Carol Horlock set a world record for fertility as a surrogate mother (Carol is now 43 years old). For 13 years, she was able to endure and give birth to 12 children, including triplets. In an interview with one of the TV shows, the woman admitted that she planned to become a surrogate mother only once, but then she could not stop. Of the pluses, she notes the material side (still - 25-30 thousand dollars per child), but the minuses include morning sickness, bed rest, stretch marks and a caesarean section.
Carol admits that surrogacy has become a real job for her.
7. The youngest mother in the world
The youngest mother in the history of medical practice was Lina Medina, she gave birth at the age of 5 years 7 months. The reason for going to the hospital was a suspicion of a tumor and an increase in the abdominal cavity. But what was the surprise of the doctors and the girl's parents when it turned out that she was 7 months pregnant. A month and a half later, by caesarean section, Lina gave birth to a boy. Doctors studied this phenomenon in detail, it turned out that the girl had reached puberty by the age of 4!
8. Gave birth to 8 children at a time
But Nadya Denise Doud-Suleman Gutierrez (Nadya Denise Doud-Suleman Gutierrez) in January 2009 gave birth to 8 children at once. This was only the second case with a successful outcome of the birth of eight children at once, before that this happened in the United States in 1998. It should be noted that the mother of many children is unemployed, the kids were conceived artificially, and 6 more babies are waiting for her at home!
9. World record for time difference between births
Elizabeth Ann Buttle has set the world record for birth difference. This difference was 41 years! Her first child, a girl, was born on May 19, 1956, when Elizabeth was 19 years old, she gave birth to her second at 60. The boy was named Joseph.
10. The first pregnant man in the world
Looking at this stately man, it is unlikely that the thought will come to mind that once he was a woman. But this is a fact: Thomas was born a woman and her name was Tracy Lagondino (Tracy LaGondino), but at the age of 10 he realized that it was not him and set the goal of his life to become a man. 8 years have passed and Thomas seriously began to fulfill his cherished dream with the help of many operations and hormone therapy, oddly enough, Thomas left his feminine dignity untouched.
The world's smallest mother has given birth to her third child, despite doctors' warnings that it would threaten her life.
Stacey Herald, 36, a native of Dry Ridge, Kentucky, USA, is only 72 cm tall. Doctors immediately told her that a fully formed fetus could easily kill her, because. her internal organs are too small, but despite this, Stacey has already given birth to three children.
Stacy suffers from osteogenesis and spends most of her time in a wheelchair, so all duties fall on the shoulders of the father of the family, whose height is more than 1.73 meters.
On January 10, 1974, Sue Rosenkowitz gave birth to six twins in Cape Town, and for the first time all of the newborns survived.
But this, as they say, is not the limit. A greater number of twins have been born and are being born in the world. What is the largest number of children born at the same time?
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In October 2008, 31-year-old Digna Carpio from New York gave birth to six twins - four boys and two girls. The weight of babies at birth ranged from 0.68 to 0.9 kilograms. The happy mother and her husband, 36-year-old Victor, already had a seven-year-old son at that time.
The birth of six twins is an extremely rare occurrence, occurring in one in 4.4 million people. Only once before in New York were born six babies at once. It happened in 1997.
In October 2010, in the Italian city of Benevento, near Naples, 30-year-old Carmela Oliva had six children - four girls and two boys. In Italy, this was the first such case in the last 14 years.
To help the babies be born, doctors were forced to resort to a caesarean section. Children were born with low weight - from 600 to 800 grams. According to doctors, this phenomenon is not associated with artificial insemination, but with the treatment that the mother underwent - the fact is that Italian laws prohibit transplanting more than three embryos.
Setuples
Bobbie McCaughey (USA) gave birth to 7 children on November 19, 1997. They weighed between 1048 and 1474 grams and were born at 31 weeks pregnant within 16 minutes by caesarean section.
7 twins were born 8 weeks prematurely - on January 14, 1998 - to 40-year-old Hasna Mohammed Humair (Saudi Arabia). Among them, 4 boys and 3 girls, the smallest weighed 907 grams.
In August 2008, in the northern Egyptian province of Beheira, the 27-year-old wife of a local farmer, Ghazalu Khamis, gave birth to seven twins at once! As it turned out, the Egyptian dreamed of giving her husband a son and was taking pregnancy-stimulating drugs. The result is four sons and three daughters.
Ghazala Khamis was placed under observation two months before the birth: the development of twins in the womb did not cause concern - the doctors were only worried about the increasing pressure on the kidneys. After a caesarean section, the woman in labor also underwent a blood transfusion. But all the crumbs were born healthy and quite large - from 1.4 to 2.8 kg, which in itself is a mystery of nature.
Eights
On January 26, 2009, 33-year-old Nadi Suleman gave birth to eight twins, all of whom were healthy.
The mother of the newborn eight then lived with her other children and parents in the suburbs of Los Angeles - in the small town of Whittier. The family already grew up six kids aged two to seven years, among whom there is a pair of twins.
The children's grandmother left her job and devoted herself entirely to her daughter's family. And grandfather, to help Nadia, went to Iraq to work under a contract. Nadia herself claimed that she decided to take this step because of her own childhood, in which she missed her brothers and sisters so much. In addition, the eccentric American said that she was following the example of her idol, the large Angelina Jolie. A few years ago, Suleman even had plastic surgery to look like an actress.
Eight was conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF). Doctors in such cases insist on the reduction (removal) of a part of the embryos. After all, such a number of them can adversely affect both the health of the mother and the health of future children.
But the Californian, with the support of her large family, refused to reduce. A single mother divorced her husband a long time ago precisely because they could not have children together.
The delivery by caesarean section was nine weeks ahead of schedule. A team of 46 doctors who took birth was expecting the birth of seven babies, which, although not often, does happen. However, there were eight newborns - six boys and two girls - and they are all quite healthy. The weight of babies is from 700 g to 1.9 kg. Seven of them immediately breathed on their own and were bottle fed. The whole family was discharged from the maternity hospital home in just a week.
From 10 and more
There is information about the birth of ten twins at once. Such cases were recorded in Spain in 1924, in China in 1936 and in Brazil in 1946. But this is not the limit.
Eleven children at once - this is the largest number of twins, information about which is known. The first birth of 11 twins occurred on May 29, 1971 in the USA, in the city of Philadelphia. The second - in 1977 in Bangladesh, in the city of Bagarhat. In both cases, none of the children, unfortunately, survived.
Moreover
The largest number of children born to one mother
The largest number of children born to one mother, according to official figures, is 69. According to reports made in 1782, between 1725 and 1765. The wife of a Russian peasant Fyodor Vasiliev gave birth 27 times, giving birth to twins 16 times, triplets 7 times and 4 twins 4 times. Of these, only 2 children died in infancy.
Of our contemporaries, the most prolific mother is Leontina Albina of San Antonio, Chile, who gave birth to 55 children between 1943-81. As a result of the first 5 pregnancies, she gave birth to triplets, and exclusively male.
The woman who gave birth the most times
The record 38 births are said to have been given to Elizabeth Greenhill of Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, UK. She had 39 children - 32 daughters and 7 sons - and died in 1681.
The largest father
The largest father in history is the Russian peasant of the village of Vvedensky Yakov Kirillov, who in 1755 was presented to the court in connection with this (he was then 60 years old). The first wife of a peasant gave birth to 57 children: 4 times four, 7 times three, 9 times two, and 2 times one. The second wife gave birth to 15 children. Thus, Yakov Kirillov had 72 children from two wives.
The purpose of a woman is motherhood. And almost all women in the world go through this difficult and at the same time joyful path - the birth of a child. Childbirth is mysterious in itself: suddenly something develops out of nothing in nine months! The mystery of the birth of a new person causes delight or bewilderment.
Here are 10 of the most incredible records in the history of childbearing.
The biggest baby in the world
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the heaviest newborn in the world who survived weighed 10.2 kg. It was a boy who was born in 1955 in the city of Aversa, Italy (Aversa). But the largest baby that has been recorded was born in 1879 and weighed over 11 kg. Unfortunately, he died literally in the first hour of life.
There are constant reports of children who weighed about 7 or 8 kg at birth. The largest and heaviest child in Germany, who was born naturally, was born in 2013 in Leipzig (Leipzig). The girl Yaslin weighed 6.110 grams, and her height was 57.5 cm. And in 2011, a boy weighing 6,080 grams was born in Berlin, but Jihad's height was greater: 59 cm. The longest child in Germany - 62 cm - was born in 2016 year in the south of Hesse.
The smallest child in the world
The smallest baby in the world weighing 226 grams and 22 cm tall was born in Germany. Emilia Grabarczyk was born in Witten, West Germany. Her foot was the size of an adult's fingernail, and it weighed no more than a bell pepper. Nobody believed that she would survive. She was born at 26 weeks in 2016.
Before Emilia, Rumaisa Rahman, who was born in Chicago at the 25th week of pregnancy, was considered the smallest child in the world. Rumaisa weighed 244 g and was 25 cm tall.
The youngest mother
The earliest pregnancy and the earliest birth were recorded by doctors in 1939. The youngest mother was a 5-year-old Peruvian girl Lina Medina (Lina Medina). By the age of 4, her mammary glands were sufficiently developed, and at the age of 5, a characteristic expansion of the pelvic bones was already noted. Cases of such early puberty in girls are extremely rare, but still this fact is not isolated. The boy weighed 2.7 kg and was named Gerardo. Who was the father of this child, no one knows to this day. For a long time, Lina's father was suspected of raping his daughter.
The oldest mother
In 2006, Spaniard Maria Carmen Bousada (María del Carmen Bousada) gave birth to twins at almost 67, using the services of the Los Angeles Reproduction Center using donor materials.
The oldest IVF mother lives in India, her name is Rajo Devi. For more than 50 years of marriage, she could not get pregnant, and by the age of 69 she was mentally and financially mature for the IVF procedure. In 2008, the couple had a healthy daughter.
The largest number of children
The largest number of children born to one mother, according to official figures, is 69. Between 1725 and 1765, the wife of a Russian peasant, Fyodor Vasilyev, gave birth 27 times, while giving birth to twins 16 times, triplets 7 times and 4 twins 4 times . Of these, only 2 children died in infancy.
The most numerous twins born at the same time
33-year-old Nadya Suleman (Nadya Suleman) in 2009 gave birth to eight twins at once - two girls and six boys. All children are alive and well, and this is the only case of the birth of an eight, where everyone survived.
Nine and ten children were also born, however, unfortunately, not all children survived.
The German record is gears born in 2008 in Berlin (four girls and two boys).
Record for time difference between births
Elizabeth Ann Buttle has two children, Belinda and Joseph. The difference between them is 41 years and 185 days. Belinda Battle was born on May 19, 1956, when Elizabeth Ann was 19, and Joseph Battle was born on November 20, 1997, when her mother was 60 years old.
Record for the speed of childbirth
33-year-old Englishwoman Palak Vyvas (Palak Vyvas) gave birth to a daughter weighing 3.5 kg in 2 minutes. These births were recognized as the fastest. The waters broke, and after just one push, a healthy girl was born, who was named Vedika.
Myselfth long labor
In Ireland, 34-year-old Maria Jones-Elliott (Maria Jones-Elliott) had a birth that got into the Guinness Book of Records. Their uniqueness lies in the fact that the woman gave birth to two twin girls with an interval of three months (87 days). This is the longest interval between one birth. Amy arrived at 24 weeks, Katie remained in her mother's womb for another three months. Both children are healthy.
