You will remember that two years ago the news of a 67-year-old woman who gave birth to twins in Barcelona became the oldest mother in the world.
Well last week Rajo Devi, A 70-year-old Indian woman was a first-time mother of a girl taking away the record.
As in the previous case, the conception has not been natural except by in vitro fertilization, since the woman has had menopause for 20 years and had been looking for a pregnancy for less than 55 years without getting it.
To achieve this, the technique of intracytoplasmic sperm injection was used, which allows even poor quality sperm to be used, because remember that the father is 72 years old. A single potential embryo was also transferred to avoid a multiple pregnancy that, given the woman's age, would have been a serious risk for both her and the babies.
Of course I will not question the right or desire of a woman to become a mother, even if she is an old woman, but I still believe that to be a mother there is a natural age that marks the woman's own body.
The parents have said they don't care about the little girl's care when they die, "the family will take care of her."
