Photos: African woman, Gosiame Sithole, 37, gives birth to quintuplets (10 babies)!!!

First it was Malian woman Halima Cisse giving birth to nonuplets (9 babies) last month in Morocco. A 

An now a South African woman claims to have given birth to ten children in what would be the world's largest ever live birth if confirmed by doctors.

Gosiame Thamara Sithole, 37, who is already a mother of twins, gave birth to seven boys and three girls by Caesarean section at a hospital in Pretoria late Monday, her husband said. Tebogo Tsotetsi - who is currently unemployed - told journalists of the birth of the decuplets late on Monday night, saying he is 'happy' and 'emotional'. 

Sithole had previously claimed the pregnancy was 'natural', but such extreme births are almost always the result of fertility treatments - with multiple fertilized embryos inserted into the womb to increase the chances the patient will fall pregnant. 

It comes just a month after a Malian woman - Halima Cisse - gave birth to nine children at a hospital in Morocco, in another case thought to have been caused by fertility treatment.