Romanian becomes oldest woman ever to give birth

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BUCHAREST (AFP) - A 67-year-old Romanian became the oldest woman ever known to have given birth, although one of her twin girls died shortly afterwards, Bucharest's Giulesti Hospital told a TV station.

Adriana Iliescu, a retired university professor, had undergone fertility treatment for nine years before succeeding in becoming pregnant.

Realitatea TV said she had given birth to twin girls, one of whom had died almost immediately. The surviving infant, which weighed 1.4 kilogram (three pounds), was in good health, the TV channel said.

The previous record was held by an Italian woman who gave birth to a baby boy at the age of 62. Doctors had implanted the egg of a young Italian woman which had been fertlized by her husband's sperm.

Doctors who handled the Iliescu pregnancy maintained total secrecy about the case, which became known to the Romanian public only from one exclusive interview Iliescu gave on the Realitatea television channel last month.

In the appearance, filmed in a hospital whose identity and location were not divulged, the retired professor said she had "not been able to resign myself to not having a child."

"I always dreamt of being a mother, and now I'm experiencing the happiest time of my life, waiting to bring my twin daughters into the world," the graying academic said with visible emotion.

Iliescu said she did not feel the effect of her relatively advanced years.

The case has sparked widespread controversy.

"She will be too old to see her children grow up," lamented the newspaper Cotidianul ahead of the birth, questioning the ethics of doctors who consented to her being artificially inseminated.

But the Church has adopted a conciliatory position.

"The Bible preaches love and procreation at whatever age," said the press office of Patriarch Bogdan Teleanu, head of the Romanian Orthodox Church.

Lucia Cornea, a staff member of Romania's centre for assisted reproduction, does not agree: "It's a scandal," she said.

Gheorghe Borcean, head of the Romanian medical profession's ethics committee, meanwhile criticised the mystery that shrouded the case.

"A case of such prominence should require academic debates and not just one single television report," he complained.

He said the Iliescu experiment had been "very risky both for the mother and for the children."

"Furthermore the quality of the sperm used for conception is doubtful," he warned.

A new Romanian law on assisted reproduction will come into effect in the country on January 1, 2007, the date on which Romania hopes to join the European Union, Cornea says.

"This law, in line with European norms, is expected to include an age limit of around 50 years of age for Romanian women seeking artificial insemination," she notes.

do you think this fair on the child?

No, not fair on the child and I think it's pretty sick given the number of orphans in Romania. If she wanted a baby that badly she could have had one who was alive and unwanted

LegacyUser

It is ****ing sick and wrong. That one is a freak. Her poor children...

Miles

Yet men farther children at this age and older and we don't here that much about it.

PRE_10_DER

yeah but men usually do it with younger women.. but good point none the less.. i think the main issue is with the mother not being able to be around her children for long.. by the time the child is 13 the mother will be 80, it's not very good for the child.

Rabies

That just isn't right. Fine help some one who is young enough to take care of a child when she gets older or some one that has fertility problems but this is crazy...

something scary entered my head.
a saggy boobed granny breast feeding..... :eek:

Peteee

Thats twisted that is, she'll be dead before the girl is a teenager ffs

joe.

Yes this is a crazy world. Nothing shocks any more.

Little Goose

I think it's sick of a woman or a man of that age to have a child. It's just ridiculous. They only do it for purely selfish reasons and don't give proper consideration to the wellbeing of the child.

boo4842

...was later seen clutching baby, asking for change at the train station.

joe.

boo4842 wrote:

...was later seen clutching baby, asking for change at the train station.

Where?

ferdi

boo4842 wrote:

...was later seen clutching baby, asking for change at the train station.

you'll get in trouble for that one me thinks/

tinkerbell

I think it's sick. She could quite easily be dead before she's 80. It's horrible, did she not even think of the poor kid who'll be left without a mother in her teens.

ferdi

indeed, its ****ed up, she and the doctors involved should be jailed/

ArthurDent

Can understand that she wanted a child, but that doesn't make it right. I my opinion its a pretty selfish act to bring a child into this world when it's pretty much a certantiy that you're not going to be around for them as they grow up, also given that the mother is 66 it's not very likely that there would be an extended family network of aunts and uncles etc to pick up the pieces when she can't cope any more.

Hobbes

Based on what I read in the politics forum she was only doing it to get citizenship Good thing we nipped that in the bud.

joe.

was this in Ireland?

simu

I think it's cool!

Adieu biological clock!

How do ye know that papa isn't 20?

Ms Beanbag

well she was trying fertility treatment for 9 yrs beforehand. she must have been pretty desperate to have it. I say fair-play to her.
67 isnt that old. she might live till the childs in its late teens, which isnt too bad!!

Shrimp

That is vial.. When the kid's like 15.. the mom will be like in her early 80's.. like that kids mom is gonna die when that kid needs her most.. she has made that kids teen years a misery already.. and thats a dead-cert.. (sorry bout the pun)

seamus

There's nothing to say that she won't be a perfectly capable mother.

But menopause exists for a reason. I personally think that's one symptom of ageing that shouldn't be bypassed.

MrBigglesworth

Milf

is_that_so

This has shown up on RTE news as well. IMHO there is an upper age limit for both parents and this lady has passed it.

Chong

Its so wrong but she may live for a long time. On a ligther note I love bmarley's sig.

Asok

Nana Bitty.

Chong

Asok wrote:

Nana Bitty.

Lol thats so sick-Hail the Little Britain Lads.

elivsvonchiaing

There were twins and one's dead already - kid is 3lbs - don't reckon this kid will become motherless - more likely she'll be burying it. Menopause exists I'd imagine because of ambient radiation that corrupts dna in a mother's eggs. At age 50 think likelyhood of birth defects is already significant - at her age can only say this doc was Frankenstein tbh!

seamus

elivsvonchiaing wrote:

There were twins and one's dead already - kid is 3lbs - don't reckon this kid will become motherless - more likely she'll be burying it. Menopause exists I'd imagine because of ambient radiation that corrupts dna in a mother's eggs. At age 50 think likelyhood of birth defects is already significant - at her age can only say this doc was Frankenstein tbh!

They weren't her eggs.

elivsvonchiaing

seamus wrote:

They weren't her eggs.

...I'll just go with the ffs the kid will be a teenager when she dies camp then - he's still Frankenstein!

Mercury_Tilt

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RasTa

Alot of fascists on here. Animals

elivsvonchiaing

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