68-Year-Old Nigerian Woman Gives Birth To Twins After 4 Failed IVF Attempts
A 68-year-old woman in Nigeria has beaten the odds and given birth to healthy twins last week.
Sources say Margaret Adenuga, a retired stock auditor, went through three previous IVF attempts before finally having a boy and a girl last week at Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) in Nigeria.
Margaret’s husband, 77-year-old Noah Adenuga, told CNN they’d wanted a child of their own for a long time and have been married since 1974.
CNN Reports:
Adenuga said they never gave up even after the failed attempts.
The retired stock auditor told CNN, “I am a dreamer, and I was convinced this particular dream of ours will come to pass.”
The babies were delivered via caesarian section at 37 weeks last Tuesday at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) but the hospital only recently made the news public to give the first-time mother time to recuperate, it said.
Dr. Adeyemi Okunowo, who delivered the babies, told CNN a specialist team was assembled at the hospital to monitor the pregnancy because of her age.
“As an elderly woman and a first-time mother, it was a high-risk pregnancy and also because she was going to have twins but we were able to manage her pregnancy to term,” Okunowo told CNN.
Last year, a 73-year-old Indian woman was safely delivered of twin girls after she conceived through IVF and is reported to be the oldest person to give birth at that age.
Okunowo said even though older women are able to conceive through IVF, doctors must lay bare the medical risks associated with being pregnant at that age.
“There are age-related medical complications that come with being pregnant at that age such as the baby being born preterm. She’s lucky but many may succumb to other complications during or after having a baby,” he told CNN.
Congratulations to the beautiful couple on their beautiful twins!
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