A 70-year-old Ugandan woman gave birth to twins BBC writes. Safina Namukwaya became pregnant with the help of artificial insemination and gave birth in a hospital in the capital (Kampala). The hospital announcement did not reveal whether the egg came from a donor or was frozen when she was younger.
Menopause occurs in most women around the age of 45-55, after which their chances of becoming pregnant decrease dramatically. however Not unprecedented at all. The current record holder is Erramatti Mangamma from India, who was born in 2019 at the age of 73.
The twins were born by caesarean section on Wednesday afternoon. This was not the woman’s first round of artificial insemination, as in 2020 she gave birth to a baby girl using a similar procedure. She now claims her partner left her after discovering she was pregnant with twins.
“Men don’t like it when you tell them you’re expecting more than one baby. Since I was hospitalized, he hasn’t visited me even once.”
He told Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper.
She said that throughout her life she helped others raise their children who left her alone after they grew up. He wondered who would take care of him when he grew up. She also decided to undergo IVF because, she claims, she had been harassed for not having children.
In vitro fertilization (IVF) works by removing an egg (either from a donor or the woman in question) from the uterus, fertilizing it with sperm in a laboratory, and then implanting it in the woman’s uterus, where – if all goes well according to plan, this is not always the case – The fetus continues to develop in the traditional way.
