PHOTO VIRAL: 74-YEAR OLD WOMAN GIVES BIRTH TO TWINS, SETS WORLD RECORD

In a shocking and bizarre case, a 74-year old woman gave birth to twin girls, in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur district on Thursday. She conceived through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). 

The woman has been identified as Erramatti Mangayamma, wife of E Raja Rao, 80, who hail from Nelaparthipadu village of Draksharamam block in East Godavari district.

The woman gave birth to the twins at Ahalya Hospital in Kothapet through Caesarian section at around 10.30 am.

While speaking to media, Dr Sanakayyala Umashankar, director of the hospital, who performed the C-section said that, "The surgery went smoothly. Both mother and the infants are healthy and have no complications whatsoever. However, the mother has been taken to intensive care unit to come out of the stress she had undergone for the last few hours."

“I don’t think she will have any major health issues in the post-delivery period. However, she cannot breast-feed the babies. But no worries. We can feed the babies with milk obtained from the milk bank,” he further added.

Mangayamma and Raja Rao, got married on March 22, 1962, and had been childless for the past 57 years. The excited father, Raja stated that, last year, she came to know about a woman in her neighbourhood becoming pregnant at the age of 55 years through In vitro fertilisation( IVF). We went forward with the idea.