70 year old woman gives birth and is breastfeeding.
There’s no question that Daljinder Kaur is one of the oldest moms on record, but just how old she is has yet to be determined.
Kaur of Amritsar City, India, gave birth to her first child last month with the help of in-vitro fertilization.
The boy, Arman Singh, was born on April 19.
The new mother puts her age at about 70, but the clinic where she gave birth released a statement saying she was 72, according to AFP.
Regardless of her exact age, the new baby was the answer to decades of prayers by Kaur and her husband of 46 years, Mohinder Singh, 79.
“I feel blessed to be able to hold my own baby. I had lost hope of becoming a mother ever,” Kaur told AFP. “I used to feel empty. There was so much loneliness.”
Singh said the couple decided to go through fertility treatment about a year and a half ago.
“Due to a family feud we never focused on our dream to become parents,” Singh told Barcroft TV. “In September 2014, my wife gave me an ultimatum and said she would go the National Fertility and Test Tube Baby Centre in Hisar, Haryana, independently if I did not accompany her.”
Doctors told Faur she was too old and relatives suggested that the cost of the treatment — around $14,448 — would be better spent by adopting a needy child.
However, the couple decided to go through with it anyway.“I never wanted to adopt a child as I was unsure if I would be able to love it like my own, hence I was keen to give birth to a baby myself,” she told Barcroft TV.
Kaur of Amritsar City, India, gave birth to her first child last month with the help of in-vitro fertilization.
The boy, Arman Singh, was born on April 19.
The new mother puts her age at about 70, but the clinic where she gave birth released a statement saying she was 72, according to AFP.
Regardless of her exact age, the new baby was the answer to decades of prayers by Kaur and her husband of 46 years, Mohinder Singh, 79.
“I feel blessed to be able to hold my own baby. I had lost hope of becoming a mother ever,” Kaur told AFP. “I used to feel empty. There was so much loneliness.”
Singh said the couple decided to go through fertility treatment about a year and a half ago.
“Due to a family feud we never focused on our dream to become parents,” Singh told Barcroft TV. “In September 2014, my wife gave me an ultimatum and said she would go the National Fertility and Test Tube Baby Centre in Hisar, Haryana, independently if I did not accompany her.”
Doctors told Faur she was too old and relatives suggested that the cost of the treatment — around $14,448 — would be better spent by adopting a needy child.
However, the couple decided to go through with it anyway.“I never wanted to adopt a child as I was unsure if I would be able to love it like my own, hence I was keen to give birth to a baby myself,” she told Barcroft TV.
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