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At Last! Proud mum gives birth to baby boy in ‘abnormal village’ where for a DECADE only girls were born

The birth of baby Bartek comes as a huge relief to the village which was catapulted into the glare of global media attention last year. Proud mum Anna said that the birth was a double miracle as last year she had to a serious operation without which it would have been impossible to have a successful pregnancy. Anna Miłek/Facebook

The birth of baby Bartek comes as a huge relief to the village which was catapulted into the glare of global media attention last year with advice flooding in on how to conceive a boy. Proud mum Anna said that the birth was a double miracle as last year she had to raise money for a serious operation without which it would have been impossible to have a successful pregnancy.

Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born

With a population of just under 300, mystery surrounds why in the last nine years locals in the village of Miejsce Odrzańskie have only given birth to girls.

Mum gives birth to SIX babies

The proud mum beat odds of 1 in 4.7 billion after the four girls and two boys popped out at the hospital in Kraków.

Baby boomers: Polish women have the highest rate of second births in the EU

The increase could be a result of the government introducing payments of 500 PLN for every second and additional child born.

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Art & Culture

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Exclusive

‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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