She world’s most fertile woman has had an incredible 44 children – and now has to raise her massive brood on her own. Mariam Nabatanzi had her record number of babies by the time she was just 36 and all with the same father. Now 39, Mariam has had three sets of quadruplets, four sets of triplets and six sets of twins. Sadly, her husband walked out on her three years ago and she is now solely responsible for her huge family. Mariam, from Uganda, was married aged just 12 to her then 40-year-old husband. Her first set of twins came along just a year later. Mariam’s life has been marred by tragedy and she and all of her children are forced to live in four cramped homes built from cement bricks with a corrugated iron roof. They are surrounded by coffee fields. After her first sets of twins were born, Nabatanzi went to a doctor who told her she had unusually large ovaries. He advised her that birth control like pills might cause health problems, so the children kept coming.
World’s most fertile woman had 44 kids by 36 – and she’s raising them alone
