As of 2014, the greatest number of children born to one woman was 69. Birth
records from the 1700s show that the wife of a Russian peasant named Feodor
Vassilyev gave birth 27 times — to four sets of quadruplets, seven sets
of triplets and 16 pairs of twins. It was reported that 67 of the 69
children survived past infancy. Vassilyev’s second wife reportedly gave
birth to 18 children, which would make him the father of 87 children, with
all but three surviving infancy. It has not been proved that the records
are true, and some people believe that the numbers might be inaccurate.
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