Mariam Nabatanzi has given birth to 44 children by the age of 40! She was sold into marriage at 12 and gave birth to a set of twins a year later. Three more sets of twins followed — along with five sets of triplets and five sets of quadruplets. Nabatanzi gave birth to 44 kids by age 40 — and only once to a single child. Doctors have told the woman from Uganda she has a rare medical condition. She was told she had unusually large ovaries that released multiple eggs at once — a condition called hyper-ovulation.
“Her case is a genetic predisposition to hyper-ovulate — releasing multiple eggs in one cycle – which significantly increases the chances of having multiple births,” explained her gynecologist.
Doctors said she could suffer health problems if she stopped giving birth. Even in Uganda, the size of Nabatanzi’s family makes her an extreme outlier. At 23, Nabatanzi already had 25 children, and she had her last child three years ago.
Twins at 13, then 3x twins, 5x triplets, 5x quads, +1 = 44!