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Wikipedia's list of multiple births records only two instances of nonuplets (nine children born at once to the same mother), none of whom survived more than a few days, so the alleged news of a woman's giving birth to eleven healthy children at once (all of them boys) would be remarkable indeed: The items referenced above, which claims an Indian (or Pakistani) woman delivered eleven living children at the same time, is not such news, however. It's a fabrication that was reported nowhere other than on a Zambian news and entertainment web site which used an out-of-context photograph from a hospital in Surat, India, taken while the staff there was celebrating the birth of eleven babies (to eleven different sets of parents) at that facility on the date of 11 November 2011 (i.e., 11/11/11). As described by the Times of India, the couples involved had all conceived via in vitro fertilization with an eye towards giving birth on that particular date: (Additional pictures of those babies can be viewed here.) A later version of this item included a purported photograph of the Indian woman who birthed the eleven baby boys: That picture was taken from an unrelated news report about a Mexican woman who underwent surgery to remove a 132-lb. tumor from her abdomen.
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