How many babies can you have?

There's no scientific limit, but the largest reported number of fetuses in one womb was 15. In 1971, Dr. Gennaro Montanino of Rome claimed to have removed 15 fetuses from the womb of a 35-year-old woman.
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How many baby can you have at once?

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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How many kids can you naturally have?

Multiple births of as many as eight babies have been born alive, the first surviving set on record goes to the Suleman octuplets, born in 2009 in Bellflower, California. As of 2019, all of them were alive and turned 10 years old.
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How many babies can a woman have up to?

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.
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What are 12 babies born at once called?

If the 12 – called duodecaplets – are all born alive they would represent a medical miracle and break the record of American mother Nadya Suleman, who recently gave birth to the world's longest-surviving octuplets.
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What birth only happens every 480 years?

In the Czech Republic quintuplets are born on average once every 480 years,” doctor Alena Mechurova said. Share this story and amaze others with this inspiring story! Types of Quintuplets Quintuplets can be fraternal (multi zygotic), identical (monozygotic) or a combination of both.
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Can a child have two fathers?

Superfecundation is the fertilization of two or more ova from the same cycle by sperm from separate acts of sexual intercourse, which can lead to twin babies from two separate biological fathers. The term superfecundation is derived from fecund, meaning the ability to produce offspring.
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Can boys get pregnant?

People who are born male and living as men cannot get pregnant. A transgender man or nonbinary person may be able to, however. It is only possible for a person to be pregnant if they have a uterus. The uterus is the womb, which is where the fetus develops.
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Who has the most kids ever?

Valentina Vassilyev and her husband Feodor Vassilyev are alleged to hold the record for the most children a couple has produced. She gave birth to a total of 69 children – sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets – between 1725 and 1765, a total of 27 births.
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Can you have 10 babies at once?

A South African woman has reportedly given birth to 10 babies in what would be a new world record. Gosiame Thamara Sithole's husband says they were astonished by decuplets after scans only showed eight in the womb. "It's seven boys and three girls.
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What is the largest multiple birth?

6. The largest multiple birth happened in 2021. In May 2021, news broke that a 25-year-old Malian woman gave birth to nine babies (nonuplets), even though she was expecting seven. She ended up breaking a world record for multiple births.
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How many kids can you have in China?

The term one-child policy (Chinese: 一孩政策; pinyin: Yī Hái Zhèng​cè) refers to a population planning initiative in China implemented between 1980 and 2015 to curb the country's population growth by restricting many families to a single child.
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Are there 7 types of twins?

Unique identical twins
  • Mirror twins. Mirror twins are exactly what they sound like! ...
  • Conjoined twins. Conjoined twins are a rare twin type in which the two siblings are physically connected. ...
  • Parasitic twins. ...
  • Semi-identical twins. ...
  • Female and male identical twins.
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What is a set of 10 babies called?

– Decuplets: a combination of 10 of a kind. In this case, babies! A South African woman has reportedly given birth to 10 babies at once, besting a world record set just last month.
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What are 5 twins called?

Quintuplets are a set of five babies born in one birth. A baby that is part of such a set is called a quintuplet and sometimes referred to as a "quint."
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Who is the oldest woman to give birth?

Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara is the oldest verified mother; she was aged 66 years 358 days when she gave birth to twins; she was 130 days older than Adriana Iliescu, who gave birth in 2005 to a baby girl.
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What is the lightest baby ever born?

Little Kwek Yu Xuan was born via emergency C-section weighing about as much as a softball — just 7.5 ounces, or 0.4 pounds — making her by many accounts the lightest baby ever delivered.
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How many babies are born a day?

How many babies are born in a day? Worldwide, around 385,000 babies are born each day. In the United States in 2019, about 10,267 babies were born each day. That's 1 percent less than in 2018 and the fifth year in a row that the number of births has declined.
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Can a 12 year old get pregnant?

Technically, women can get pregnant and bear children from puberty when they start getting their menstrual period to menopause when they stop getting it. The average woman's reproductive years are between ages 12 and 51. Your fertility naturally declines as you get older, which could make it harder for you to conceive.
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Can a girl get pregnant by another girl?

The short answer to this question is no, not through sexual intercourse. Two cisgender women (meaning assigned female at birth) in a relationship cannot become pregnant without some form of assisted reproductive technology (ART).
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Has a man ever had a baby?

Beatie had gender reassignment surgery in March 2002 and became known as "the pregnant man" after he became pregnant through artificial insemination in 2007. Beatie chose to be pregnant because his wife Nancy was infertile, doing so with donated sperm. The couple filed for divorce in 2012.
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Can a baby eat its twin in the womb?

Parasitic twins differ from vanishing twins. With vanishing twins, early ultrasound or fetal heartbeat confirms the presence of two fetuses. But in later tests, only one fetus remains. The vanishing twin is absorbed by the remaining twin, the placenta, or the mother's body.
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Can twins be born days apart?

Carmen Martinez, in a rare occurrence, gave birth to rare identical twin daughters three days apart. The babies were born are Gabby and Bella. Woman gave birth to rare identical twins in Abilene, Texas. In a rare occurrence, a woman gave birth to rare identical twin daughters three days apart.
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Can twins have different birthdays?

Twins with different birthdays are rare, with some estimates suggesting the chance of them being born in different years as around one in 2 million. Twins born just 15 minutes apart ended up having separate birthdays in different years - an event that has around a one in two million chance of happening.
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