After 30 years of marriage, 3 husbands, woman gives birth at 52

After almost three decades of marriage, spent in the harrowing embrace of barrenness, and with three husbands, 52-year-old Alhaja Owolabi Kareem against all odds and human expectations not only got pregnant, but also gave birth to a bouncing baby girl.For the couple, Alhaji and Alhaja Owolabi Kareem of Ajah in the Eti Osa Local Government Area Lagos State, November 26, 2010 will forever be remembered as a day of celebration of miracles. It was the day on which the 52-year-old Alhaja Owolabi Kareem put to bed a bouncing baby girl. It was the first in her life.Like most women of her age, Alhaja...

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43y mom thought she had started menopause

A 43 year old Madrid woman has given birth to her fourth child while in the toilets of the Law Faculty of the UNED University in Madrid, where she works, and says she did not even know she was pregnant.She had thought that she had started the menopause.Two of her work colleagues helped her and called SAMUR health professionals to the scene on Monday at 11am.The baby girl weighed 1.96 kilos, and mother and baby are now both doing well in the Gregario Marañón Hospital.SourceLife Begins... - Miscarriage stories of loss, hope & helpPregnancy Stories by Age - Daily blog of hope & inspiration!You...

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I'm 58... and having twins

At 29 weeks pregnant with twins, Carole Hobson is — like most expectant first-time mothers — a mixture of ­nervous excitement and apprehension. This, she admits, has been a difficult pregnancy, and it will be a relief when her babies are born, hopefully healthy and well.Carole has suffered severe morning sickness, painful swelling of her legs and, most recently, dangerously high blood pressure. This week she was hospitalized for five days, and she has been warned by medical staff that the twins — not due until February 23 — could arrive any day.She has been injected with steroids to help her babies’...

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When I’m 64 – I’ll have my first child

A pensioner from Canton Aargau has given birth to her first child – at the age of 64. This makes her the oldest mother in Switzerland.Mother and daughter, who is now four-and-a-half months old, are both well and on Tuesday appeared on the front page of Swiss tabloid Blick.The woman, whose husband is 60, had a miscarriage when she was 61 and three years later decided to try again. According to Blick, she went for an examination in Italy and then traveled to Russia where she received an egg from a donor. This is illegal in both Switzerland and Italy.“When you harbour a wish so deeply, you must fulfill...

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IVF helps 55-year-old give birth to a son

Stock photo by girinathA 55-year-old woman from Dhule gave birth to a baby boy on Tuesday morning at the Origin Fertility Centre in Thane through in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Shobha Joshi and her husband Vidyadhar (54) had the baby after nearly 35 years of married life.The couple from Dhule had come to Thane after seeing a newspaper article on Thane's first surrogate child.The Joshi's made an arduous yet hopeful journey from Dhule to the fertility clinic at Hiranandani Meadows in August last year."When the couple approached us, we were in a dilemma because of the age factor. But at the same time,...

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