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Ten childbirths that shocked the world
12.01.2011 
Missus.Ru website made the list of most unusual childbirths, which shocked the 
world in 2010. The list includes a Russian woman, who delivered four children 
in four minutes, an African woman, who gave birth to children of different 
colors at once, an Egyptian woman, who gave birth to seven babies, a man from 
Kuzbass, the father of a large family, who became a grandfather 103 times, and 
many other interesting cases.
1. In Russia's Kaliningrad enclave, a woman gave birth to four babies - two 
girls and two boys. It became the first incident in the history of the whole 
region, and a third incident in the whole country. The woman delivered the 
quadruplets in four minutes only. Sergei and Julia Grakhovskikh always thought 
that a family should have two children. When their daughter turned eight, the 
couple decided to have a second child. As a result, the woman is now a mother 
of five.

2. Florence, a 35-year-old woman from Africa, gave birth to twins of different 
colors. Her husband is a white male from Germany. Medics say that there is one 
chance in a million when children with such distinctive appearance can be born. 
The woman became the mother for the first time. One child is a dark-skinned and 
black-haired boy, who was named Leo. His brother has white skin and blue eyes - 
he was named Ryan.

3. In Alexandria, Egypt, a 27-year-old woman successfully delivered seven 
children. The babies - four boys and three girls - were born prematurely. The 
babies were born by Cesarean section. A similar incident took place in Algeria 
in 2007, although none of the newborns stayed alive.

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4. Great Britain was very surprised when 31-year-old Vicky Lamb from 
Oxfordshire delivered sextuplets in May of 2010. The woman gave birth to four 
girls and two boys. The newborns range in weight from 1lb 5oz to 1lb 15oz.

5. Aleksei Shapovalov, 73, from the city of Novokuznetsk became a grandfather 
103 times. His 103rd granddaughter became the 15th child in the family of the 
man's sixth son. The record-holding man has 117 descendants: 13 children, 51 
granddaughters, 52 grandsons and one great-grandson. Shapovalov says that he 
has a religious family, that's why they do not use contraceptives. His sons and 
daughters have 10-15 children each.

6. 22-year-old Chilean Olympic weightlifter Elizabeth Poblete had the surprise 
of her life, when, during training, she gave birth to a child she did not even 
know she was pregnant with. The child was three months premature and did not 
survive.

7. An extremely rare incident took place to a British woman. She gave birth to 
two sets of twins within just one year. Hazell Bowden discovered she was 
pregnant with twins again just four months after giving birth to her first set, 
the Daily Mail reported. The woman is thought to be the only woman in the UK to 
have given birth to two sets of twins within just one year.

8. Tom Penn, 46, and Alison, 31, from New York became parents to identical 
triplets. The triplets, carried to 35 weeks and weighing 4 pounds, 12 ounces; 4 
pounds; and 4 pounds, 11 ounces at birth, are identical triplets, the first 
known to be born on Long Island in almost 15 years. The children were named 
Logan, Eli and Collin. The father calculated that the kids would need 10,000 
diapers a year.

9. A 34-year British woman arranged an online broadcast of her labor on 
Twitter. Hundreds of people were following the woman on Twitter for 13 hours. 
According to Fi Star-Stone, she decided to tell about the process of childbirth 
in Twitter, to help women who are preparing to become mothers, to overcome the 
fears associated with childbirth. "I constantly hear from women that they are 
afraid of pregnancy, that's decided to tell them that there is nothing 
terrible," Star-Stone said.

10. In Germany, a 64-year-old woman gave birth to a baby girl and became the 
nation's oldest mother. The woman previously tried to get pregnant through IVF, 
but all of her attempts failed.

Alexandra Agapova
Missus


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