Mom gives birth to 9 babies then doctors realize one of them isn't a baby at all

a 26 year old mother from mali is speaking out about her record-breaking family more than two months after her nine infants were delivered at a hospital in morocco the woman who also has a two-year-old daughter said that the non-uplifts were conceived without assistance halima sis and her husband cater arby age 35 received the surprise of a lifetime when they learned they were expecting high order multiples completely naturally at first the couple was told they were having seven babies and doctors warned that there was less than a 50 chance of all the babies surviving sis went to morocco for better medical care and it was there minutes before the may 5th delivery that she found out she was carrying nine children it was a total shock when i found out that i was having nine babies because i thought it was going to be seven she told the daily mail these are the first non-outlets in the world to survive birth there are only two other recorded cases of non-outlets in the world once that was born in australia in 1971 and all the babies died within their first week out the other set was born in malaysia in 1999 all the babies died the day after they were delivered a guinness world records representative told npr that they have yet to officially verify this record and that the well-being of both the mother and babies are of top priority the previous record was held by nadia suleiman also known as octomom who gave birth to eight babies in 2009 the care of both babies and mom was so complex it required to move them to morocco according to bbc sis was admitted to the hospital after 25 weeks of gestation and the medical team taking care of her was able to delay the birth of her babies until 30 weeks 10 doctors and 25 paramedics were involved in the birth of the premature babies the non-uplets include four brothers mohammed ba alhaji and omar and five sisters hawa adama fatalma aomu and kadidya they joined their older sister sauda who's two sis said that she was still recovering from the pregnancy and a difficult delivery according to the daily mail her stomach alone weighed about 65 pounds and the cesarean delivery was complicated with lots of blood loss that left her weak the babies who weighed between one and two pounds at birth are all still in the neonatal intensive care unit giving birth to one child is hard enough but having nine is unimaginable sis told the daily mail it's astonishing the amount of work that's involved in looking after them for now sis has all the help she needs in a team of 35 care providers the government of mali is footing the bill for the family's care which is estimated to cost more than a million dollars the couple has a three-bedroom house in timbuktu mali arby works as a sailor in the malian navy the logistics of being parents to 10 children or daunting but for now arby said he's focused on his wife and nine new family members doing well there are a lot of things to work out about the future but for now we're just focused on looking after our babies and getting them home he told the daily mail the big concern for me is not the size of my house how many rooms we have or money but making sure that my wife and children are okay