Sigebert, in his Chronicles, says that the mother of the King of Lombardy had borne 7 children at a birth.
Borellus says that in 1650 the lady of the then present Lord Darre gave birth to eight perfect children at one parturition and that it was the unusual event of the country.
Mrs.Timothy Bradlee of Trumbull County, Ohio, in 1872 is reported to have given birth to 8 children at one time.

They were healthy and living, but quite small.

The mother was married six years previously and then weighed 273 pounds.

She had given birth to 2 pairs of twins, and, with these 3 boys and 5 girls, she had borne 12 children in six years.

She herself was a triplet and her father and her mother were of twin births and one of her grandmothers was the mother of 5 pairs of twins.