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Ugandan mum of multiple quadruplets struggles to provide 38 kids

 
sgtdjones 2019-04-27 09:50:18 

Ugandan mum of multiple quadruplets struggles to provide for 38 kids

Kasawo, Uganda: Mariam Nabatanzi gave birth to twins a year after she was married off at the age of 12. Five more sets of twins followed - along with four sets of triplets and five sets of quadruplets.

Three years ago, however, the 39-year-old Ugandan was abandoned by her husband, leaving her to support their surviving 38 children alone.

It was just the latest setback in a life marred by tragedy for Nabatanzi, who lives with her children in four cramped houses made of cement blocks and topped with corrugated iron in a village surrounded by coffee fields 50 km north of Kampala.

After her first sets of twins were born, Nabatanzi went to a doctor who told her she had unusually large ovaries. He advised her that birth control pills might cause health problems.

So the children kept coming.


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sgtdjones 2019-04-27 09:51:23 

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