Her name is Mariam Nabatanzi, and her life story sounds almost impossible to believe. In rural Uganda, this mother has given birth to 38 children — all with the same father — a reality that has left doctors, journalists, and people around the world stunned 👩🏾‍🍼✨.
Mariam was married at just 13 years old, still a child herself, with simple dreams of one day raising a modest family of maybe six children. But her body had other plans. She was diagnosed with an extremely rare medical condition known as hyperovulation, causing her ovaries to release multiple eggs at once. As a result, her pregnancies repeatedly ended in twins, triplets, and even quadruplets 🧬👶👶👶👶.
Over the years, the numbers grew beyond imagination:

• 6 sets of twins

• 4 sets of triplets

• 3 sets of quadruplets

• Along with several single births

Today, her oldest child is 23. Her youngest is still an infant. Ten are girls. The rest are boys. Her home is always loud, always crowded, always moving 💕👦🏾👧🏾. Doctors attempted birth control to protect her health, but some methods caused severe complications and nearly cost her life. Eventually, medical professionals advised her to stop further interventions — leaving Mariam to face motherhood on a scale few could endure. Her husband later left, and she now raises most of her children largely on her own, relying on small jobs and community help just to provide food, school supplies, and basic necessities 🥺💔. Life is brutally hard. Meals are stretched. Shoes are shared. Education is a daily struggle. Yet what’s most striking is not the hardship — it’s Mariam’s unwavering spirit.
“My children are not a burden,” she says softly. “They are a blessing.”
In a world quick to judge, her words land with quiet power. This is not a story about shock value or statistics. It is a story about resilience, about a woman whose strength is tested every single day — and never gives way. About a mother who wakes up each morning carrying a weight few could imagine, and still chooses love 💛🕊️. Mariam Nabatanzi’s life reminds us that motherhood isn’t measured by ease or comfort, but by endurance, sacrifice, and a heart that refuses to break — even when the world feels impossibly heavy.