A MUM has given birth to an incredible nine babies - after medics missed two tots on the ultrasound.
Halima Cisse, 25, had believed she was pregnant with seven babies, before the surprise was revealed during a nailbiting c-section op.
She joins a small group of mothers of nonuplets worldwide after the safe delvery of five girls and four boys.
All nine of the babies were delivered by caesarean section, Reuters reported.
Nonuplets are extremely rare, with medical complications often arising for both the mother and her babies.
Cisse’s pregnancy attracted the attention of leaders in her home country Mali, and when doctors saw she needed specialist care, authorities flew her to Morocco, where she gave birth.
The private Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca confirmed she gave birth there.
The clinic's director Youssef Alaoui told Moroccan state TV that they had been contacted by Malian doctors about the case a month and a half ago.
They were not expecting nine babies, he said.
Cisse gave birth prematurely at 30 weeks and is now in stable condition after heavy bleeding for which she was given a blood transfusion.
The babies have been placed in incubators, said Dr Alaoui.
"The newborns (five girls and four boys) and the mother are all doing well," Mali's health minister, Fanta Siby, added in a statement.
