An elderly woman from Mora village in Gujurat, India has hit headlines after becoming a mother for the first time at the age of 70.
According to media reports from the country, Jivunben Rabari and her 75-year-old husband, Maldhari, welcomed their son after long years of trying to get a baby.
The couple told the media that they managed to get their bundle of joy through IVF.
They have been married for 45 years without a baby
Rabari said that she does not have an Identity Card to prove her age but she believes she is 70 years old making her one of the oldest mothers in the world.
While commenting on the news, their family doctor, Naresh Bhanushali, said that the couple’s case was a rare one.
”When they first came to us, we told them that they couldn’t have a child at such an old age, but they insisted. They said that many of their family members did it as well. This is one of the rarest cases I have ever seen,” Banushali said.
Such cases are now becoming common in India. In September 2019, A 74-year old woman gave birth to twins in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
The woman provided a birth certificate to the hospital to prove her age. She is also said to have been able to deliver by using the IVF method.
The woman and her 82-year old husband had been childless, a state that made them face stigma in their village.
In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) is a reproductive method whereby a man’s sperm is combined with a woman’s egg outside of the body in a laboratory dish.
The fertilized egg is then transferred into the uterus of the woman, where it may implant in the uterine lining and develop.
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