Indian woman gives birth at age 70
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AN Indian woman who gave birth at the age of 70 said yesterday she was not too old to become a first-time mother, adding that her life was now complete.
Daljinder Kaur gave birth last month to a boy following two years of in vitro fertilization, or IVF, treatment at a fertility clinic in the northern state of Haryana with her 79-year-old husband.
Kaur said the couple, married for 46 years, had almost lost hope of ever having a child and had faced ridicule in a country where infertility is sometimes seen as a curse from God.
“God heard our prayers. My life feels complete now. I am looking after the baby all by myself, I feel so full of energy. My husband is also very caring and helps me as much as he can,” Kaur said from the northern city of Amritsar.
“When we saw the (IVF) advert, we thought we should also give it a try as I badly wanted to have my own baby.”
Kaur put her age at about 70, a common scenario in India where many people don’t have birth certificates, while the clinic said in a statement she was 72.
The baby was conceived using the couple’s own egg and sperm and was now “healthy and hearty” after weighing just 2 kilograms at birth on April 19, according to the National Fertility and Test Tube Center.
Kaur’s husband, Mohinder Singh Gill, who owns a farm outside Amritsar, said he was unfazed about their age, saying God would watch over their child whom they named Armaan.
Anurag Bishnoi, who runs the fertility clinic, said he was initially sceptical about going ahead with IVF, but tests showed Kaur was able to carry the unborn baby.
The case is not the first in India, with a 72-year-old woman from Uttar Pradesh state reportedly giving birth to twins in 2008, also through IVF.
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