A 68-year-old Nigerian woman has given birth to healthy twins, a boy amd a girl, the CNN reported.
Source: CNN
According to report, after a four IVF attempts, Margarit Adenuga, a retired stock auditor finally have her child at Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).
Her husband Noah Adenuga, 77, told CNN they's wanted for so long to have their own child since being married in 1974.
The couple kept hoping their dream would come true some day, and miraculously, it did.
"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," Dr. Adeyemi Okunowo, who delivered the babies, told CNN.
Last year, a 73-year-old Indian woman said to be the oldest person to give birth to a twin girls after she conceived through IVF.
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