fertility drugs in order to produce a son, since she already had three daughters. The McGhee septuplets (born 9 June 2010, in Columbus, Ohio) were born to Mia and Rozonno McGhee at 27 weeks. One girl was stillborn. The other two girls (Olivia and Madison) and the four boys (Rozonno Jr., Elijah, Isaac, and Josiah) had birthweights ranging from 1.5 lb. to a fraction over 2 lbs. Octuplets (8) The first confirmed birth of octuplets occurred on 10 March 1967, in Mexico City, Mexico to Maria Teresa López de Sepúlveda. All four boys and four girls died within 13 hours. A set of octuplets was born on 16 August 1979, to Pasqualina and Stefano Chianese in Naples, Italy. Six of the babies died and two survived. The couple had previously lost a set of sextuplets in 1976. A set of octuplets was born on 20 December 1985, to Sevil Capan of İzmir, Turkey. Born prematurely at 28 weeks, six of the octuplets died within 12 hours of birth, and the remaining two died within three days. A set of octuplets was born between 30 September – 2 October 1996, in a hospital in South London, United Kingdom to Mandy Allwood of Solihull. Allwood was only 19 weeks pregnant when she went into pre-term labor with her six boys (Adam, Cassius, Donald, Kypros, Martyn, and Nelson) and two girls (Layne and Kitali). All babies died after a few days. She had refused selective reduction and her case provoked a media storm in the UK. Allwood died of cancer in February 2022, aged 56. A set of octuplets was born on 5 December 1996, in Huelva, Spain to Rosario Clavijo. Two of them were stillborn and six survived. The Chukwu octuplets were born in December 1998 in Houston, Texas, United States. The smallest of the octuplets, Odera, died a week after birth. A set of octuplets was born between 13 September – 16 September 2000, in Milan, Italy to Mariella Mazzara and Giovanni Pierrera of Trapani. One died immediately after birth, two within a few days of birth, and the oldest, Margherita, died a month later on 10 October. The Suleman octuplets (born 26 January 2009, in Bellflower, California, United States) were the world's first set of octuplets to survive infancy. One week after birth, the Suleman octuplets became the longest-living octuplets in known history. They were conceived through IVF. The children,