Annegret Raunigk, 65, is reportedly pregnant with quadruplets. Elementary school teacher in Germany was reported to have entered a period of 21 weeks' gestation and feel "healthy".
If the pregnancy goes smoothly, as expected, Raunigk will become the oldest woman who gave birth to quadruplets, but not the oldest mothers who gave birth to a child.
Official records that there was no mention of the oldest mother is Spanish Maria del Carmen Bousada Lara, who gave birth to twins in 2006, when she was 66 years, although a number of other says a record held by Omkari Panwar, who is believed to be 70 years old when gave birth to twins in India in 2008.
How pregnancy when age was "aging" is medically possible?
Eggs from donors
Women who have passed menopause is not possible to get pregnant without help. They require donor eggs from their own-or eggs that have been frozen to be able to pregnant. For women, the fertile period declines over aging, and this decrease occurred rapidly after the age of 35 years, although it is different from one person to another.
Hormone
Before the egg has been fertilized donor can be used, the doctor should ensure the womb of the woman is ready to receive and maintain it. Doctors can give estrogen therapy to thicken the lining of the uterus and prepares the environment for the embryo.
Once the fertilized eggs that have been transferred to the uterus, prospective mother should get hormone therapy to support a pregnancy. In contrast to younger women who have fully functional ovaries, women who are older will not be able to produce its own hormones.
Strict supervision
Dr Sue Avery, fertility expert at the Center for Women Fertility Birmingham, England, said older mothers should be monitored carefully because they have the risk of complications associated with higher pregnancy rates as high blood pressure and gestational diabetes.
But if the donor eggs are a younger woman, things could be different. Because pregnant quadruplets, it is not possible for Raunigk to give birth naturally and he would have to give birth by cesarean.
The 65-year-old woman already has 13 other children and the last childbirth are a decade ago.
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