Mariam Nabatanzi from Uganda was married off at the age of 12. The following year she gave birth to twins. By the age of 39, Mariam had five more sets of twins, four sets of triplets and five sets of quadruplets. She gave birth to 44 babies, and only 38 of them survived. The fertile mother asked a doctor for birth control, but he told her she couldn’t stop giving birth as it could cause health problems. So after her much older husband abandoned the family, she stopped having children. How does she manage to make ends meet?
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Mama Uganda
