The greatest officially recorded number of
children born to one mother is 69, to the wife of Feodor Vassilyev (b.
1707–c . 1782), a peasant from Shuya, Russia. In 27 confinements she
gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of
quadruplets. Numerous contemporaneous sources exist, which suggest that
this seemingly improbably and statistically unlikely story is true.
The
case was reported to Moscow by the Monastery of Nikolsk on 27 Feb 1782,
which had recorded every birth. It is noted that, by this time, only
two of the children who were born in the period c. 1725–65 failed to
survive their infancy.
That’s a strong woman!
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