Miracle of Birth: 74-year-old Erramatti Mangamma becomes mother to twin girls in Andhra Pradesh
Pregnancy over the age of 50 has increasingly become possible over recent years due to advancement in 'assisted reproductive' medical techniques like In Vitro fertilization (IVF).
Can a lady at the age of 74 become a mother? Doctors in the Guntur town of Andhra Pradesh now have a definitive answer to that question after they performed a caesarean (C-section) surgery today on Erramatti Mangamma, a 74-year-old lady who gave birth to twin girls.
The piece of news comes across as particularly jolting because the oldest verified mother until now on record was Daljinder Kaur in Punjab's Amritsar who, in 2017, gave birth to a baby at the age of 72. Since the doctors managed to successfully deliver Erramatti's baby, she, at 74, has now become the world's oldest woman to give birth to a child.
As a matter of fact, pregnancy over the age of 50 has increasingly become possible over recent years due to advancement in 'assisted reproductive' medical techniques like In Vitro fertilization (IVF), intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), cryopreservation, or simply due to advanced fertility medications.
However, medical science says that the health risk posed to a woman due to pregnancy also increases proportionally with age, across the 40s. Natural fertility stops when a woman hits menopause and can no longer get pregnant, the average age for which varies anywhere between 43-51.
Techniques like IVF have since enabled women to get pregnant even after the natural menstrual cycle ends. History was made today after the surgery of Errmatti Mangamma.