GUESS: What is the record number of children born to one woman?

Now take a second to guess.... how many children to you think one woman has (been legitimately recorded) to have?

24?

Oh no much higher, a professor of mine has a neighbor with this many kids....

32?

38?

Higher than that....

44?

50?

Even higher still....

And the answer is...................................69!!!

It's true! All of the births were witnessed and recorded! The woman was a Russian peasant in the eighteenth century. She had 27 total pregnancies:

• 16 pairs of twins
• 7 sets of triplets
• four sets of quadrupletlets

The most amazing part is that 54 out of her 69 children survived to adulthood!

Don't believe me? Well it's true! Search it online or get a hold of an old World Records Book!

The current world-record holder in this same category is a South American woman. She had, count 'em, 64 children! (*Although only 55 were witnessed births and are "verified" as hers).