A 61-year-old woman has become a mum for the first time after falling pregnant naturally.
Maria
Rosaria Veneruso delivered a healthy baby boy
called Elia Francesco, weighing in at 7lbs 7oz, on Monday afternoon.
The
Italian woman said she and her husband Enzo were completely delighted with
their new arrival.
She
told local media: "I have fulfilled my dream. The future does not scare
me."
Perhaps
even rarer, Maria Rosaria did not have any reproductive treatment to ensure
that she got pregnant.
Doctor
Stefano Palmieri, who oversaw the birth at a hospital in the Castel Volturno
commune in the Campania region in the south-western part of Italy, said:
"It was a peaceful pregnancy."
"The lady did
regular physical exercise up until her seventh month", he added.
Although
the birth may raise some eyebrows, the record is still held by an unidentified
English woman who delivered her infant in 1887.
The
woman had triplets at 62 and her boys, her 11th, 12th, and 13th children, were
all brought into the world naturally.
The oldest person to ever
give birth, records say, is 70-year-old Daljinder Kaur from India who had a
baby with her 79-year-old husband Mohinder Singh Gill through IVF (In Vitro
Fertilisation) treatment.
IVF
is an assisted reproductive technology which involves manually combining an egg
and sperm in a laboratory dish, before then transferring the embryo to the
uterus.
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