60-year-old woman gives birth to twins in Canada

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Alberta: A 60-year-old woman in western Canada has given birth to twins after going to India for fertility treatments, the new mother told a Canadian broadcaster on Thursday.
The Alberta Health Services issued a news release on Thursday saying the mother and two infants are in good condition. The health department also said the woman and her family declined to speak with media and asked that they respect her privacy. The agency declined a request for further details about the mother and recent births.
First-time mother Ranjit Hayer spoke to a CBC reporter from her hospital bed Thursday morning before the news release was issued. She said that she was determined to be a mother, and had tried for decades to conceive naturally and with medical intervention. One effort in India failed when she and her husband paid a doctor for in-vitro fertilisation, but he absconded with their money.
They returned to Canada and again saved for years, the CBC reported, until they had enough money to go back to India and try again with donor eggs. The woman became pregnant with triplets, but one had to be terminated because of medical problems.
The CBC said Hayer’s two boys were delivered seven weeks prematurely by Caesarean section at Calgary’s Foothills Hospital on Tuesday.
The news network quoted the woman’s obstetrician, Colin Birch, as saying there are social and ethical considerations beyond the medical ones.
“There’s so much more involved in this,” said Birch. “It’s not just having the babies and being born. There’s not just one generation gap here. There’s two generation gaps.”
Women who use fertility treatments to become mothers long past natural child-bearing years may not be acting in the best interests of their children, said a medical ethicist from McGill University in Montreal.
 
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