The world’s most fertile woman is in Uganda, and she has 44 children
A 40-year-old Ugandan woman is being hailed as the East African country’s most fertile woman.
Mariam Nabatanzi from Uganda’s Mukono District is said to have given birth to 44 children.
Married at age 12, Mariam spent 18 years of her life upholding to the Bible Verse Genesis 9:7, which reads—”As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”
Nicknamed ‘Nalongo Muzaala Bana’ to wit, “the twin mother that produces quadruplets”, Mariam is reported to have given birth to six sets of twins, four sets of triplets, three sets of quadruplets, including a few single births.
Thirty-eight children are said to be alive out of the 44. Most of them are living with her at their family house, sde.co.ke reported. Ten are girls and the rest, boys. The oldest is said to be around 25 years old while the youngest is around two years.
Mariam was married off at age 12 to a 40-year-old man in 1993 after escaping an attempt on her life by her stepmother.
“I did not know I was being married off,” she recollected in an interview. “People came home and brought things for my father. When the time came for them to leave, I thought I was escorting my aunt but when I got there, she gave me away to the man.”
Speaking to Daily Monitor, Mariam recounted being beaten almost every day by her husband. Married into a polygamous family, she would have to always take care of her co-wives’ children whenever they weren’t there.
“My husband was polygamous with many children from his past relationships who I had to take care of because their mothers were scattered all over. He was also violent and would beat me at any opportunity he got even when I suggested an idea that he didn’t like,” she said.
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