'World’s oldest mum' gives birth to twins aged 74 after 60-year wait to start a family
A 74-YEAR-OLD woman is thought to have become the world's oldest mum after giving birth to twins and ending a 57-year wait to start a family.
Erramatti Mangayamma, from Hyderabad in central India, reportedly conceived the girls through IVF treatment and gave birth by caesarean section on Thursday.Credit: The Mega AgencyMangayamma, who says she went through the menopause 30 years ago, is older than the official record holder was when she gave birth.Mangayamma married agriculturalist Yerramatti Raja Rao, now 80, on March 22, 1962, but the couple had so far failed in their attempts to have children.
IVF, or in vitro fertilisation, is a process where a woman's fertile egg is combined with a sperm outside the body before being implanted in the same or another woman's uterus to instigate a pregnancy.'THEY COMPLETE ME'"I cannot express my feeling in words," she said after the birth."Now, no one call me infertile anymore.Mangayamma gave birth under the care of hospital director Dr Sanakayyala Umashankar.
"However, the mother has been taken to intensive care unit to come out of the stress she had undergone for the last few hours."The babies were conceived using the sperom of Mangayamma's husbandDr Umashankar said she had had few problems conceiving or delivering in spite of her age because she had not medical complications such as diabetes and hypertension."However, she cannot breast-feed the babies. But no worries.Mangayamma continues to be monitored in hospital.
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