ORISSA, April 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 65-year-old woman in India’s eastern state of Orissa has become the oldest woman in the world to give birth. Mrs. Satyabhama Mahapatra, married for 50 years but reportedly childless until now, was delivered of a healthy six-pound boy by Caesarean section. The woman had undergone in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment, with ova donated by her 26-year-old niece together with the niece’s husband’s sperm.
Agarwal said doctors had tried to dissuade the woman and her 68-year-old husband, Krishnachandra Mahapatra, from having a baby at their age, but relented after they insisted. A doctor admitted that IVF, performed in only 50 clinics in India equipped with laboratories for making test tube babies, entails “the risk of abortion, hypertension in elderly women and aggravation of diabetes,” The Australian newspaper reported. For news coverage: https://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,6262689%255E1702,00.html