LARKANA: A family from Larkana in Sind province in Pakistan has held a Guinness World Record since 2019 for sharing the same birth date for the parents and seven children.
August 1 has a great significance for the family of nine, a day on which they have something extraordinary in common- as they all celebrate their birthday on the same day.
With this unique factor, the family holds the Guinness World Record for 'Most family members born on the same day'.
The Mangi family comprises the proud parents Ameer and Khudija, who have the joy of raising seven children with the common birthday of August 1. The seven of their children, aged between 19 and 30, are Sindhoo, Sasui, Sapna, Aamir, Ambar, Ammar, and Ahmar. Four of them are two sets of twins with coincident birthdays.
This day is made more special by the fact that the Mangi children are also the holders of the record for the 'most siblings born on the same day.'
August 1 is even more special for Ameer and Khudija as that day marks their wedding anniversary. The couple got married on their birthday in 1991, little knowing that it was the start of something special and unique.
On the day exactly a year after their wedding, they became the proud parents of their eldest daughter Sindhoo. Even then they did not know that their entire family would expand to share the same day as their birthday.
After that, the Mangi family became parents to two sets of twins, each of whom were born on August 1. Five years after the birth of twin girls Sasui and Sapna, their twin boys Ammar and Ahmar were born in 2003 on the same day. This marked the fifth verified instance of two sets of twins with coincident birthdays given birth by a mother, marking another record for the 'most twin siblings born on the same day'.
Ameer was frank when he told Guinness World Records that he did not consciously plan for his kids to be born on the same day, something that is anyway not possible, stressing that it was all a natural gift from Allah.
The Guinness World Records organization reported that all the children had been conceived and born naturally. Not one of the children was delivered prematurely via caesarean section, and never was Khudeja’s labour induced early.
Therefore, August 1 has become a day of great celebration for the Mangi household, all blowing their birthday candles at the same time, with nine of them sharing the same cake on August 1.
Sasui told Guinness World Records that earlier they used to celebrate their birthdays in a simple manner, but now they do it better and with a lot of happiness.
After the Mangi family being awarded their Guinness World Records title, Ammar expressed his obligation to God for bestowing this world record, saying that the same birthday has “proven to be very lucky” for his family.
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