Some World's Oddest Mothers

*-- Known as the 'octomom' by the media, Nadya Denise Daud Suleman came to internayional attention after she gave birth to octuplets in January 2009. Her set of actuplets are second to be born alive in the US and the quickly surpassed the previous worldwide survival rate for a complete set of octuplets set by the Chakwu octuplets in 1998. Nadya, an unemployed single mother, had already six young children and along with the octuplets all were conceived via in-vitro-fertilisation that led to a lot of controversy. *-- After waiting more than 40 years for her first child, Indian Rajo Devi Lohan gave

birth to a child in November at the age of 70 years. She plans to breastfeed her baby at least for three years. *-- According to the Guinness Book of world records, history's most prolific mother

was a peasany from Shuya, Russia, known only as the 'wife of Feodor Vessiyelev' who gave birth to no less than 69 kids in 18th century from 27 pregnancies. *-- The first man to become a mother, Thomas Beatie was born a woman. He underwent surgery and hormone treatment ten years ago and ever since lived as a man in Oregon. His 34-year-old wife was unable to conceive due to prior hysterectomy. So, Beatie decided himself to have a baby, through artificial insemination using donor sperm and Beatie's

own egg. *-- Absolutely determined to have a son, 70-year-old Omkari Panwar became the oldest mother having twins. Along with her husband Charan Singh Panwar, 77, they paid for IVF treatment vital to producing a male heir to the family's smallholdings- after selling

their buffaloes, mortgaging their land, spending life long savings and credit card loans The Panwars had already two adult daughters and grandchildren but they wanted son, and got two.