Out of norm as 70 year old woman gives birth to twins
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70 year old woman, Safina Namukwaya gives birth to twins at a hospital in Uganda after IVF treatment
70 year old woman, Safina Namukwaya gives birth to twins at a hospital in Uganda after IVF treatment.
Safina Namukwaya delivered a boy and a girl via caesarean at a fertility centre in the capital, Kampala.
Ms Namukwaya, who is is one of the oldest women to give birth, told local media it was a “miracle”.
The hospital congratulated her, saying it is more than a “medical success; it’s about the strength and resilience of the human spirit”.
“We’ve achieved the extraordinary – delivering twins to Africa’s oldest mother aged 70!” the Women’s Hospital International and Fertility Centre (WHI&FC) posted on its Facebook page.
The hospital said the woman had delivered the twins on Wednesday just after midday, adding: “Mother and babies are all well.”
Ms Namukwaya told Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper that her pregnancy had been difficult as her partner abandoned her when he realised she was going to have twins.
“Men don’t like to be told that you are carrying more than one child. Ever since I was admitted here, my man has never showed up,” she said.
This is Ms Namukwaya’s second delivery in three years. She gave birth to a baby girl in 2020.
She said she had wanted to have children after she was mocked for being childless.
“I looked after people’s children and saw them grow up and leave me alone. I wondered who would take care of me when I grow old,” she is quoted as saying.
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“Many people judged and abused me for being barren but, I decided to leave everything to the Almighty God who has finally answered my prayers,” she said shortly after the birth of her first daughter in 2020.
Further, the 70-year-old revealed she had suffered miscarriages in the past noting she lost her husband in the 1990s#.
Typically women go through menopause between the ages of 45 and 55.
Fertility drops around this time but advances in medicine have made it possible for them to give birth.
In-vitro fertilisation (IVF) is one of several techniques.
During the process an egg is removed from a woman’s ovaries and fertilised with sperm in a laboratory.
The fertilised egg, called an embryo, is then put in a woman’s womb to grow and develop.
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