Doctors ban woman from giving birth after 44 children

A Uganda woman has been banned by doctors in the country from conceiving after giving birth to 44 children.

Mariam Nabatanzi nicknamed ‘the world’s most fertile woman’ by neighbours gave birth to four sets of twins, five sets of triplets and five quadruplets.

Doctors Nabatanzi banned from giving birth to more children, according to the Al Jazeera documentary quoted in 7news.com.au.

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The single mother, who earlier this year was the subject of an Al Jazeera mini-documentary, works a handful of jobs to take care of her 38 living children.

She works as a tailor, hairdresser and a herbalist to support her family, adding that, above all, she wants her living children to receive a quality education.

A gynaecologist, Dr Chales Kiggundu, who was interviewed in the documentary, said Nabatanzi’s incredible number of pregnancies were the result of hyperovulation, which is when the body releases more than one egg during the menstrual cycle.

Dr Chales Kiggundu said the phenomenon increases a woman’s chances of having twins, triplets or quadruplets.

“You find that some of the women have the potential of having between 10 to 12 eggs that come at the beginning of the month.

“Some of them have the potential to have more than one fertilization take place.”

Nabatanzi has made attempts to stop having children in the past, including using an IUD after her 18th baby was born, a 2018 BET article reported. However, the device made her so sick that she went into a coma.