60-year-old Chinese woman gives birth to two healthy girls

BEIJING (BNO NEWS) — A 60-year-old retired woman has given birth to two baby girls in east China, according to state-run media on Thursday, making her the country’s oldest mother on record.

The girls were born prematurely in a hospital in Hefei, the capital of East China’s Anhui province, on Tuesday, 34 weeks after the unidentified woman successfully received in-vitro fertilization (IVF). She was only identified as Cheng Lin, a pseudonym.

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John Travolta and Kelly Preston, 47, Are Expecting!

Great news for the Travolta family!

John Travolta's wife Kelly Preston, 47, is expecting.

The Hollywood couple made their announcement on both of their websites Tuesday:

"It's impossible to keep a secret...especially one as wonderful as this," the message reads.

"We want to be the first to share this great news with everyone that we are expecting a new addition to the our family."

The message is signed "John, Kelly and Ella."

Travolta, 56, and Preston have a 10-year-old daughter, Ella Bleu. In January 2009, their 16-year-old son Jett tragically died of a seizure. "We've been working very hard every day as a family to heal, Travolta said in November, adding that the "outpouring of love from, really, worldwide has been extraordinary."

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Bulgarian Psychiatrist Becomes Mother at 62

Krasimira Dimitrova, a 62-year-old from the Northen Bulgarian city of Ruse, has become one of the oldest mothers in the world after giving birth to twins.

Dimitrova has become Bulgaria's oldest first-time mother by giving birth to twins. Mary and Jacqueline, following an embryo transfer.

The twins are in good health despite being born prematurely and only weighing less than 1 kilogram each, local doctors reported.

Her pregnancy was the result of an embryo transfer, Dimitrova told the Bulgarian 24 Chasa newspaper in an interview, adding that she was initially impregnated with triplets but doctors decided to remove one of the embryos.

'Age was not an obstacle for me... I so much wanted to have children,' she said.

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Holly Martin, 45, gave birth to a healthy baby

Another patient of Dr. Winslow’s, Holly Martin*, age 45, conceived after treatment and gave birth to a healthy baby. Holly says, “We went through a lot to have this baby.” Holly and her husband began trying to conceive when Holly was 38. When the couple first went to see Dr. Winslow, he tested both of them, standard procedure to determine the cause of infertility. As the cause was not absolutely determined at this point, Dr. Winslow put Holly on the maximum dosage of follicle stimulating hormone, the strongest drug given for stimulation of ovulation.

Dr. Winslow explained the egg donor program to Holly and her husband, who decided to try that method. Cindy Brubaker, then head of the egg donor program at FIRM, helped Holly throughout the very emotional process. “I had decided that if I couldn’t use my own eggs, I would stop. When I found out my eggs were not an option, I quickly decided to use the donor egg program and have never regretted it. I was surprised at what a wonderful experience it turned out being for me. I felt very close to my donor, even though she was anonymous, knowing that we were going through a process together. A person who donates their eggs so a couple she does not even know can become a family is a truly loving and generous soul. It was an amazing experience receiving this gift from a stranger. I have never experienced that kind of generosity before and it affected me at a very deep level.”

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55-year-old Woman Delivers Twins in India

August 27, 2007 - For a long, long time she had been longing for a child. And menopause had overtaken her. Still she would not give up. She feels doubly rewarded now, literally.

On Monday morning, 55-year-old Brinda became the proud mother of two. Her twins were delivered at a fertility clinic in Chennai, a south Indian city. She is now probably the oldest woman in India to deliver twins.


Both the baby boys, delivered during hour-long caesarean section, and their proud mother are in good health, hospital authorities say.

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'I thought it was menopause': Italian woman shocks doctors by falling pregnant aged 54 - NATURALLY

A 54-year-old Italian woman has amazed doctors and herself by falling pregnant naturally.

Hospital worker Giovanni Ciardi is one of only a handful of women to have become pregnant without medical treatment in their 50s.

Doctors have described her as an 'exceptional case'.

Mrs Ciardi is 15 weeks pregnant. She is due to give birth to a girl in November - by which time she will be 55 years old.

She already has a 23-year-old daughter called Veronica through her first marriage.

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Oldest Mother Did Not Know

July 16, 1969 - "Suddenly I'm young again," grandmother Mrs. Joanna Du Plessis said today.

Mrs. Du Plessis, 58, gave birth to a 5 lb. girl on Tuesday.

She said she had to borrow dolls clothes from one of her ten grandchildren to dress the baby, because she did not know until three hours before the birth that she was pregnant.

Mrs. Du Plessis became the oldest woman on record to have child.

The Guinness Book of Records said the oldest woman previously to give birth was American Mrs. Roth Kitler who had a daughter in 1956 at the age of 57.

Mrs. Du Plessis told reporters her husband had wept for joy when he saw the baby, called Magda.

"It was his first child," she said.

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