A woman in south Africa has given birth to ten babies in South Africa thereby breaking the Guinness Word Record of the most children delivered at a single birth to survive.

The South African woman Gosiame Thamara Sithole from Gauteng delivered her decuplets (10 babies)

Sithole had more babies than doctors detected during scans. She was expecting eight but had seven boys and three girls.

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She had the babies 29 weeks into her pregnancy.

She broke the record previously held by Malian Halima Cissé, who gave birth to nine children (nonuplets) in Morocco in May.

Sithole, 37, a retail store manager, had six-year-old twins before her new birth.

The Guinness World Record details the most significant births worldwide to include the most prolific mother ever (1782); heaviest birth and longest baby (1846); most consecutive girl/boy births in a family (1975); first test-tube baby (1978); most premature baby (1987); shortest female to give birth (2006); the oldest person to give birth (2006); heaviest woman to give birth (2007); most children delivered at a single birth to survive (2009), among other

She said her conception was natural.

Speaking to Pretoria News, an online news medium, before she gave birth she said that she was shokked and thought be twins or triplets,

She said: ‘I am shocked by my pregnancy. It was tough at the beginning. I was sick. It was hard for me. It’s still tough, but I am used to it now. I don’t feel the pain anymore, but it’s still a bit tough. I pray for God to help me deliver all my children in a healthy condition and for me and my children to come out alive. I would be pleased about it,” she had said.

“I didn’t believe it. I doubted it. I was convinced that if it was more, it would be twins or triplets, not more than that. When the doctor told me, I took the time to believe it. Even when I saw the scans, I didn’t believe it. But, as time went by, I realised it was indeed true. I battled to sleep at night, though.

“How would they fit in the womb? Would they survive? What if they came out conjoined at the head, in the stomachs or hands? Like, what would happen? I asked myself all these questions until the doctor assured me that my womb was starting to expand inside. God made a miracle and my children stayed in the womb without any complications,” she had added.

Her husband said he was shocked when she learnt of the pregnancy.

“I could not believe it. I felt like one of God’s chosen children. I felt blessed to be given these kinds of blessings when many people out there need children. It’s a miracle which I appreciate. I had to do my research on whether a person could conceive eight children. It was a new thing. I knew about twins, triplets and even quadruplets.

“But after I found out that these things do happen and saw my wife’s medical records, I got even more excited. I can’t wait to have them in my arms,” Tsotetsi had said.