A Mexican woman has got a lot on her hands after getting pregnant with an incredible nine babies.
The country's main broadcaster Televisa reported last night that Karla Vanessa Perez is expecting six girls and three boys.
Perez, who already has triplets, was described as coming from the north-eastern state of Coahuila, which borders the U.S. state of Texas.
Nonamum: Pregnant Mexican woman Karla Perez, who is expecting six girls and three boys
Proud father: Karla's husband Bernardo
She is currently being treated at a hospital in the state capital Saltillo, the broadcaster said in the report.
Perez, whose age was not given, had fertility treatment with her husband Bernardo leading to the multiple pregnancy, it said.
The garage where Karla's mechanic husband Bernardo works
State-owned news agency Notimex also reported the pregnancy, saying Perez was due to give birth on May 20.
'It's very early to think of names for the babies,' Perez told Notimex. 'First I hope that everything goes well.'
The successful delivery of nonuplets would be one of the highest multiple births ever recorded.
New mother Karla Vanessa Perez, who has given birth to nonuplets was described as coming from the northeastern state of Coahuila, which borders Texas
In 2009, a woman in California gave birth to octuplets, sparking worldwide media attention.
Mother-of-14 Nadya Suleman, 36, from La Habra, was dubbed 'Octomum' has since become a television personality in the U.S..
However, since the birth of her eight new children she has faced problems and been close to being evicted from her home.
Nadya Suleman, dubbed Octomum, with her octuplets. She has six other children
Her children are now being monitored by officials with the California Children's Services Department.
* EDITOR'S NOTE - While there is clearly room for debate about the correct grammatical term for a woman who has nine children, the classicists at MailOnline have insisted on using the ordinal Latin term, nona, meaning ninth, rather than the cardinal alternative, novem, meaning nine, or indeed the Greek, ennea.
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Karla Vanessa Perez's children are not the first nonuplets to be born, but if they all live they will be the first to survive.
A set was born on June 13, 1971 in Sydney, Australia, to Geraldine Brodrick. None of the five boys and four girls lived. Two were stillborn and the last to survive died six days after birth.
Nonuplets were also born on March 26, 1999, in Malaysia to Zurina Mat Saad. She had five boys and four girls (Adam, Nuh, Idris, Soleh, Hud, Aishah, Khadijah, Fatimah and Umi Kalsom) but none of them survived more than six hours.
Nadya Suleman - or 'Octomum' - holds the world record for the most children delivered at a single birth to survive with her eight babies.
Before that, the record was held by Bobbie McCaughey, who gave birth to four boys and three girls in 1997 at the University hospital, Iowa in United State of America.
The greatest recorded number of children born to one mother in the world, according to Guinness is 69. In 27 pregnancies, the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev of Russia gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets in the 17th century.
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