Nonuplet
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Nonuplets is a case of multiple birth in which the mother gives birth to nine offspring at one time.
There have been six (possibly seven) recorded cases of human nonuplet births and conceptions.
Unidentified sets were born in Pennsylvania (1972), England (1976), Bangladesh (1977) and Saudi Arabia (2002, to a Sudanese woman). None survived in these sets.
The Broderick set was born in Australia on 13 June 1971, five boys and four girls. None of them survived, although one lived six days.
The other recorded set was in Malaysia in 1999, to Zurina Mat Saad. Her five boys and four girls were named Adam, Nuh, Idris, Soleh, Hud, Aishah, Khadijah, Fatimah and Umi Kalsom, but none survived more than 6 hours.
The possible set may have occurred in Italy in 1979, but it is unknown if this was a set of nonuplets, or the Chinese octuplets (eight babies) that were born the same year.
None of the sets of nonuplets were conceived spontaneously; all were achieved through fertility treatments.
