Extremely Rare First-Ever Surviving Nonuplets Celebrate 1st Birthday ‘In Perfect Health’

'I hope God blesses everyone who doesn't yet have children.'

Halima Cissé and her husband, Abdelkader Arby, with their 10 children: nonuplets and 3-year-old daughter. Courtesy of Nonuples Arby

The record-breaking Malian nonuplets have just celebrated their first birthday “in perfect health.”

The babies born in Morocco last year are the world’s only known naturally conceived nonuplets, and even hold the Guinness World Record for most babies delivered in a single birth to survive. The previous record was held by eight babies born to “Octomom” Nadya Suleman of the United States in 2009.