The Mother With the Most Births

According to the Guinness Book of Records, history’s most prolific mother was a peasant from Shuya, Russia, known only as “the wife of Feodor Vassilyev”, who gave birth to no less than 69 children in the 18th century, from 27 pregnancies. She gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets between 1725 and 1765, in a total of 27 births. 67 of the 69children born survived infancy.