Watch Video: At 37, this Woman has given birth to 38 Children.

Mariam Nabatanzi Babirye is a 37 year old woman with 38 children.

She lives in Kabimbiri village, Mukono District.

Narrating her story to Uganda’s Daily Monitor she said that she was married off to her then forty year old husband at age 12 after she escaped death in 1993.

“I did not know I was being married off. People came home and brought things for my father. When time came for them to leave, I thought I was escorting my aunt but when I got there, she gave me away to the man.”

She added that her husband was polygamous and abusive.

She gave birth to her first set of twins in 1994 when at age 14. Two years later, she gave birth to triplets and a year and seven months after that added a set of quadruplets.

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She did not see this as a strange development since her father gave birth to 45 children with different women and these all came in quintuplets, quadruples, twins and triplets.

By her sixth delivery, she had had 18 children and wanted to stop, so, she went to see a doctor at Namaliili Hospital. She tried again when she had 23 children.

But the doctors could not help since Nabatanzi had high ovary count which would eventually kill her if she stopped.

“I was advised to keep producing since putting this on hold would mean death. I tried using the Inter Uterine Device (IUD) but I got sick and vomited a lot, to the point of near death. I went into a coma for a month,” she explains.