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Motherhood Knows No Age: 70-Year-Old Ugandan Woman Delivers Twins Becoming Oldest African Mother
Motherhood Knows No Age: 70-Year-Old Ugandan Woman Delivers Twins Becoming Oldest African Mother
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Earlier, the title of the continent's oldest mother belonged to Margaret Adenuga, a 68-year-old Nigerian, who welcomed a set of twins at the Lagos University... 30.11.2023, Sputnik Africa
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Ugandan Safina Namukwaya has become the oldest mother in Africa at the age of 70, giving birth to twins, according to the Women's Hospital International and Fertility Center in the Ugandan capital Kampala, where the birth took place.The hospital disclosed that the woman had become pregnant through in vitro fertilization (IFV), describing the achievement not as a "medical success" but as "the strength and resilience of the human spirit."Namukwaya, who can surely raise opposite-sex twins as worthy children with her vast life experience, told the local media that it was her second birth in three years after giving birth to a girl in 2020.She also revealed that she faced many challenges during her pregnancy, including the father of the children "going out for milk" when he found out that the number of children was about to triple.Influenced by the constant stigma and ridicule for being childless, Namukwaya decided to have a child through artificial insemination, she said.The world record for oldest mother belongs to Mangayamma Yaramati of India, who gave birth to twins in 2019 at the age of 74.
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Motherhood Knows No Age: 70-Year-Old Ugandan Woman Delivers Twins Becoming Oldest African Mother
16:31 30.11.2023 (Updated: 17:42 07.03.2024) Earlier, the title of the continent's oldest mother belonged to Margaret Adenuga, a 68-year-old Nigerian, who welcomed a set of twins at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital three years ago.
Ugandan Safina Namukwaya has become the oldest mother in Africa at the age of 70, giving birth to twins, according to the Women's Hospital International and Fertility Center in the Ugandan capital Kampala, where the birth took place.
The hospital disclosed that the woman had become pregnant through in vitro fertilization (IFV), describing the achievement not as a "
medical success" but as "the strength and resilience of the human spirit."
IVF is a technique that helps people with fertility problems have a baby. IVF involves removing an egg from a woman's ovaries and fertilizing it with a sperm under controlled laboratory conditions.
Namukwaya, who can surely raise opposite-sex twins as worthy children with her vast life experience, told the local media that it was her second birth in three years after giving birth to a girl in 2020.
She also revealed that she faced many challenges during her pregnancy, including the father of the children "going out for milk" when he found out that the number of children was about to triple.
"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.
Influenced by the constant stigma and ridicule for being childless, Namukwaya decided to have a child through
artificial insemination, she said.
"One time, a very young boy heckled at me saying I had been cursed by my mother to die without a child," she noted.
The world record for oldest mother belongs to Mangayamma Yaramati of India, who gave birth to twins in 2019 at the age of 74.
