A 67-year-old Spanish woman became the world's oldest mother after gaving birth to twins in the northern city of Barcelona on Saturday, a Sant Pau hospital official said.
The woman, whose identity has not been revealed by Sant Pau hospital, gave birth by caesarian section on Saturday having previously undergone in vitro fertilization in the United States.
Both the woman, from the southern Spanish region of Andalucia, and babies were in good health, the hospital said, although the new-borns had been placed in an incubator.
The previous holder of the oldest mother record was 66-year-old Romanian citizen Adriana Iliescu who gave birth to baby Eliza Maria in Jan. 2005.
The hospital declined to give the woman's name or specify the gender of the babies.
The new mother will spend at least another four or five days in the hospital, which has a unit specialising in high-risk births, the spokesperson said.
Source: AP
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