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65yo
woman gives birth A 65-year-old Indian
has become the oldest woman in the world to give birth, her doctor said. According to the
Guinness Book of Records, the previous record-holder was a 63-year-old
woman who gave birth to a boy on July 18, 1994. India's previous
oldest woman to give birth was a 58-year-old from the western Indian
financial hub of Bombay. Suresh Kumar Agarwal,
one of the doctors to carry out the delivery, said he had called forensic
experts to certify Satyabhama's age and has written to the Guinness Book
of Records and its Indian version, the Limca Book of Records. Agarwal said
Mahapatra had undergone in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment at a clinic
in Raipur city in the central Chhattisgarh state "Satyabhama had
come to us in late 2001. The couple had been married for 50 years and were
very keen to have a child," he said. "We suggested
embryo donation through IVF to them last year." The procedure
involves fertilising donor eggs with sperm in a laboratory and has a
success rate of 25 per cent. Satyabhama's
26-year-old niece, Veenarani Mahapatra, donated the eggs and Veenarani's
husband gave his sperm. Agarwal said doctors had tried to dissuade the
woman and her 68-year-old husband, Krishnachandra Mahapatra, from having a
baby at their age, but relented after they insisted. The doctor said the
pregnancy was free of complications, apart from the mother having
hypertension after three months. He said the process,
which only 50 clinics in India are equipped to handle, involves the risk
of abortion, hypertension in elderly women and aggravation of diabetes. The procedure costs
around 30,000 rupees ($1050). His clinic has previously delivered babies
for women aged 45 and 48. Copyright
© 2002 Global Action on Aging
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