Steele was pregnant with both vagina (5 eggs) and anal (4 eggs), but after birth text only list vaginal births. All 9 are listed in nursery.
You quickly lose track of time, your world fading into the abstract pleasure of birth, bringing each successive offspring to a nipple to nurse, and trying to keep others from wandering off as they adjust to their spindly legs. By the time your body seems finally empty, you count a total of 5 offspring having clawed their way out of you, leaving you panting and gasping on the ground.