Woman gives birth to twins at the age of 70
Twins are born in a hospital in Uganda. The special thing about it: the mother is already 70 years old. However, the babies' father seems anything but thrilled.
In Uganda, a 70-year-old woman has given birth to twins by caesarean section. Safina Namukwaya is the oldest mother in Africa, said doctor Edward Tamale Sali, who attended to Namukwaya during the pregnancy and birth. The babies - a boy and a girl - were born in a clinic in the capital Kampala, where Namukwaya had undergone in vitro fertilization. Mother and children are in good health.
"I don't know how to express my joy right now," said Namukwaya, who lives in the rural Masaka region around 120 kilometers west of Kampala. At her age, she was no longer expected to "get pregnant and give birth or take care of a baby", she said. The twins are therefore a "miracle" for her. Her doctor spoke of an "extraordinary achievement".
Namukwaya told the Ugandan newspaper "Daily Monitor" that her pregnancy had been difficult because her partner had left her when he realized that she was going to have twins. "Men don't like it when you tell them you are having more than one child. Since I was admitted here, my husband hasn't turned up."
According to the BBC, it is unclear whether Namukwaya was implanted with a donor egg or one of her own that was frozen when she was younger. The 70-year-old said she had already given birth to a girl in 2020 - after previously being unable to have children and being vilified as a "cursed woman".
In vitro fertilization is a method of artificial insemination. In this process, a previously retrieved egg is brought into contact with the father's sperm outside the body. After a few days, the resulting embryo - sometimes several - is transferred to the mother's uterus. If everything goes well, a baby grows.
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The in vitro fertilization process that led to the twins' birth was conducted in a clinic in Kampala, Uganda, utilizing advanced techniques of artificial insemination.
Despite the international attention brought by the pregnancy, the twins' father remained distant from the family, expressing unease about the pregnancy and raising questions about the acceptance of such cases in Ugandan society.
Source: www.ntv.de
