A Facebook post with more than 21,000 shares seeks to display images of a woman who supposedly gave birth to eleven babies. However, the content uses two misleading images as evidence: one of the famous American “Octomom”, who gave birth to eight babies in 2009, and another showing eleven babies born on the same day in India, but to different mothers. .
This message, dated March 12, 2018, originally posted on Facebook or a Nigerian-based page, is gaining popularity in Kenya. The post urges Facebook users to write “God is great” and quickly share the post to receive supposed blessings.
A detailed investigation of the image depicting medical staff next to a row of 11 babies reveals several articles about a woman who gave birth to 11 babies, dating back to 2012.
A screenshot taken on April 10, 2019, of Babies Are Adorable’s misleading Facebook post.
We examine the background of the image for more clues. The group is located in front of a sign that says: “Tᴇɴᴛʀᴇ Sᴜʀᴀᴛ”.
The spelling and grammar of the paragraph are correct. There are no notable typos in the text provided:
“A more detailed search of the same photo using Google’s reverse image search function, using the term ‘ᴛᴇsᴛ ᴛᴜʙᴇ ʙᴀʙɪᴇs Sᴜʀᴀᴛ’, reveals several articles debunking the claim that a woman gave birth to 11 babies in the city of Surat, in western India.”
In fact, the photograph was taken after the birth of 11 babies on November 11, 2011 in Surat, at an In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) center. Thirty women were in the same center months before. However, 11 of the couples chose to wait for their babies for the special date of 11/11/11 and scheduled operations for delivery, the Times of India reported.
After the birth, the IVF center posted the photos on the blog that was open at the time.
As for the second image, ᴘᴏʀᴛʀᴀʏɪɴɢ a pregnant woman from the front and side, it shows an American woman named Nadya Sυlema, also known as Natalie Sυlema. Sυlemaп was nicknamed “Octomom” by the media in 2009 after she gave birth to eight babies, also through IVF. She was already six pregnancies when she felt pregnant with the octuplets.
Multiple births are a highly rare occurrence, and when they do happen, the chances of the infants surviving are quite slim. If something similar were to happen, it would be covered by Jewish organizations. There are a few of these people (9 children were born in the office). However, there are no records of 11 children born simultaneously. Therefore, the doubt about an Indian mother having 11 children in the office is a hoax, largely aimed at misleading people.
