A 37-year-old mother in Kabimbiri village, Mukono District in Uganda has given birth to an astonishing 38 children, whom she has delivered from home except the last born who is four months old. She delivered by cesarean section.
Among her children are six sets of twins, four sets of triplets, three sets of quadruples and single births. Ten of them are girls and the rest are boys. The oldest is 23 years old while the youngest four months.
She was married off to a 40-year-old man at the age of 12 years in 1993. Mariam said she was married off at an early age to a polygamous and gave birth for the first time at the age of 13, to twins.
She told Nation News Paper, “Her case is genetic predisposition to hyper-ovulate (releasing multiple eggs in one cycle), which significantly increases the chance of having multiples."
“I am hopeful that my children will go to school because they all have big ambitions of being doctors, teachers and lawyers; I want them to realise these dreams, something I was not able to do".