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Nonuplets
Nonuplets are a case of multiple birth, in which the mother gives birth to nine offspring.
There is only one case of nonuplets born alive, to a Malaysian family in 2001 in Malaysia. However, the nonuplets were being born at four to five months old, and the four girls and five boys survive only up to six hours after birth, due to prematurity. Three women have born nonuplets in 1972, England in 1976, and in Bangladesh in 1976, but none survived for long. A Sudanese woman is expecting nonuplets after infertility treatment.
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