Pregnant at 65 … with Quadruplets

Last Update: April 21, 2015 at 11:24 am

SOURCE: BBC

Annegret Raunigk, 65, is reportedly due to give birth to quadruplets.

The German primary school teacher is said to be in her 21st week of pregnancy and feeling “fit”.

If her pregnancy progresses well, as hoped, Ms Raunigk will be the oldest to give birth to quadruplets, but not the oldest mum to give birth to a child – that official record is held by Maria del Carmen Bousada Lara, who give birth to twins in Spain in 2006, at the age of 66, although some say it belongs to Omkari Panwar, who is believed to have been 70 when she gave birth to twins in India in 2008.

How are these “elderly” pregnancies medically possible?

Full story:  http://www.bbc.com/news/health-32284075