A 70-year-old woman in Uganda has given birth to twins after receiving fertility treatment that has made her one of the world’s oldest new mothers.
Safina Namukwaya gave birth to a boy and a girl on Wednesday via C-section at a hospital in the capital Kampala where she had received in vitro fertilization treatment, said Arthur Matsiko, spokesperson for the Women’s Hospital International Facility Centre.
“He is healthy. He is talking. She walks if they tell her to walk around the hospital,” Matsiko said of Namukwaya, who gave birth to a daughter at the same facility in 2020, when she was in her late 60s, after IVF treatment.
Namukwaya used a donor egg and her partner’s sperm to conceive the twins, said Dr. Edward Tamale Sali told BBC News, hailing the baby’s arrival as an “extraordinary achievement.”
The twins were born prematurely at 31 weeks gestation and were placed in an incubator, but are said to be in good health.
Despite being born prematurely, the twins are said to be in good health. Book 1
Namukwaya is the oldest woman to give birth at a Kampala hospital, which specializes in helping couples with fertility problems.
“At the age of 70 when I was considered weak, unable to conceive and give birth, or take care of a baby, and this is the miracle of the twins,” the new mother told AFP.
Before she welcomed her first child three years ago, Namukwaya said she was labeled in her rural community as a “cursed woman” for failing to conceive.
Namukwaya is undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment with donor eggs and her partner’s sperm. Namukwaya Women’s Hospital International and Fertility Center had her first child in the late sixties, also with the help of IVF treatment. Women’s Hospital International and Fertility Center
Her husband died in 1992, leaving her childless, and she met her current partner in 1996.
Namukwaya blasted her partner for failing to visit her in hospital, speculating that she might be upset because she gave birth to twins.
“Men don’t like to be told that you are carrying more than one child. Since I was admitted here, my man never showed up,” she lamented.
This is not the first time a woman outside the traditional age of giving birth has become a mother. In 2019, a 73-year-old woman in southern India gave birth to twin girls after undergoing IVF treatment.
With Postal wire
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