We wish them well... they're in our prayers

Sextuplets family’s message to mum of 9 babies

- PAUL BYRNE

THE British mum of the world’s first surviving female sextuplets is praying for the nine tiny babies born to a mum in Morocco.

Jan Walton, now 68, made headlines around the world in 1983 when she gave birth to six daughters, now 37, dubbed the Walton Sextuplets.

Now her thoughts are with Halima Cisse, 25, who this week became only the third person ever to give birth to a set of nonuplets.

Jan, of New Brighton, Merseyside, said: “We wish them well and we are thinking of them in our prayers.”

The five girls and four boys born on Tuesday, each weighing around 2lb or under – less than a bag of sugar – are being cared for in incubators in Casablanca.