1. The Tallest Baby Ever: An Extraordinary Birth with the World’s Longest Newborn belonging to mother Anna Bates. The Guinness World Record documented this mind-boggling event in January 1987. Baby Babe was born with a total body length of 71.12cm (28 inches) and weighed 10kg (22 pounds). The baby’s size was inherited from both the towering heights of the mother (2.41m or 7 feet 11 inches) and the father (2.36m or 7 feet 9 inches). Unfortunately, Babe’s fate was short-lived, as the baby passed away just 11 hours after being born.
2. The Smallest Baby Ever: While Babe left others astonished with its extraordinary size, Nisa Juarez captivated hearts with her incredibly tiny stature. Born prematurely at just 108 days gestation, Nisa measured a mere 24cm (9.4 inches) in length and weighed 320g (0.7 pounds). Fortunately, a miracle took place as Nisa was discharged from the hospital five months later on December 6, 2002.
3. The Mother with the Most Children: This extraordinary childbirth record belongs to the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev from Russia, recognized by the Guinness World Records as the mother with the most children. It is documented that she gave birth to a staggering 69 children. Among them were 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. These instances of multiple births also secured her the world records for the highest number of twins and quadruplets ever born.
4. The Most Premature Baby: The record for the most premature baby belongs to Curtis Means. He was born after just 21 weeks of gestation, weighing 420g (0.93 pounds). At the time of Curtis’s birth, experts estimated only a 1% chance of survival, but a miracle occurred. Today, at nearly three years old, the child has faced some health complications due to his premature birth, such as high blood pressure.
5. The Most Premature Twin Babies: The world record for the most premature twin babies belongs to Keeley and Kambry Ewoldt from Iowa, USA. The babies were born at just 22 weeks of gestation. Their birth weights were 490g (1.08 pounds) and 379g (0.83 pounds) respectively.
6. The First Test Tube Baby: This record belongs to Louise Brown, a baby girl born through the first successful in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure. Louise was born on July 25, 1978. Since her birth, over one million babies have been born through IVF in the United States. This method has become increasingly safer for both mothers and babies over time.
7. The World Record for the Most Multiple Births: In 2021, Halima Cissé from Mali successfully gave birth to 9 babies in a single pregnancy. It is reported that the mother underwent a cesarean section at 30 weeks of gestation on May 6, 2021.
8. The Mother with the Most Triplets: Maddalena Granata from Italy holds the record for being the mother with the most occurrences of giving birth to triplets. Unfortunately, there is limited information available about her. The Guinness World Records recognized her as having 15 instances of giving birth to triplets. She was born in 1839 and passed away in 1886.
9. The Longest Frozen Embryo Storage: The pair of twins, Lydia and Timothy (from the UK), were created from frozen embryos on April 22, 1992, and preserved in liquid nitrogen for over 30 years. Luckily, the successful IVF procedure resulted in the birth of two healthy baby girls on October 31, 2022.
10. The Oldest Successful Pregnant Mother: Maria del Carmen Bousada Lara underwent in vitro fertilization (IVF) in California, USA. At the time, Maria falsely declared her age as 55 to the clinic in order to proceed with the fertility treatment. In 2006, she successfully gave birth after a full-term pregnancy, becoming recognized as the oldest woman to successfully conceive at the age of 67.
