Most Births

[mfdinham]

Who has had the most babies born by a single woman

[sddsddean]

I tried a web search, but can't find the details. The record is held by a Russian woman who had something like 54 children.

[Rabelais]

I just pulled out the Guinness Book of world records only to find it isn't in there in the millenium edition (which I must admit is a shadow of what it once was). But all is not lost I have and older copy and most children (by one women) The greatest officially recorded number of children produced by a mother is 69 by the first of the 2 wives of Feodor Vassilyev (b 1707-fl. 1782), a peasant from Shuya, 150 miles east of Moscow. In 27 confinements she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets. The children, were born in the period c. 1725-1765