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The “national children” as they are called in Mali are doing well. An exceptional multiple birth because it is the first medically registered birth in the world of nine children from the same pregnancy. Their mother, a 25-year-old Malian, was transferred to Morocco in late March for care. Born much prematurely by caesarean section at a clinic in Casablanca on May 4, the nine children are four weeks old on Tuesday, June 1, 2021.
The nine children are doing well, they breathe alone without help. They open their eyes, turn a little, each in an incubator. They are fed every three hours by a probe.
The priority for their pediatrician, Khalid Mseif, is to get them to gain weight: “There is one who had 500 grams in the beginning. There it is 800 grams today. And another who weighed a kilo, he is 1 kilo 300 grams today. So we are more and more confident, more and more calm. So normally it’s good, it should go gradually. “
The goal is to reach about two kilos for each child before they leave the clinic, maybe in a month if all goes well. Their mother, Halima Cissé, regains her strength. She goes to meet them every day and communicates at a distance with her father, still in Mali.
“Every day that God does, I hear from the children and their mother as well,” the father explains. When she’s at the newborn level, where the kids are, she’s calling me on video so I can see them a little bit. The results are positive. So that’s good. “
Abdelkader Arby is still waiting for permission from Morocco to travel. A journey complicated by the Covid-19 pandemic. He can not wait to go with his wife and their nonuplets.
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