67-year-old Greek grandmother give birth baby girl become oldest surrogate mother in World. A 67-year-old grandmother has given birth to her daughter’s baby girl.
And becoming the world’s oldest such surrogate mother, her medical team said.
“This is a heroic grandmother,” supervising obstetrician Constantinos Pantos told state television ERT.
The baby girl was born on Tuesday via caesarian section after a 7.5-month pregnancy, weighing 1.2 kilograms (2.6 pounds).
“I feel more like a grandmother than a mother,” said Anastassia Ontou from a village near Larissa, central Greece.
Adding that she faced few problems during the pregnancy.
“It was an easy decision for me — my daughter was heartbroken after not being able to carry the baby herself,” she told private TV station Star.
Pantos said that “based on international records, this the oldest surrogate mother who is also a grandmother, based on her daughter’s medical condition.
” According to the Guinness Book of Records, the oldest mother is Maria del Carmen Bousada Lara from Spain.
Who 66 years and 358 old when she gave birth to twin boys in Barcelona in 2006.
She passed away from cancer in 2009. Ontou’s daughter Constantina, 43, said she thought her mother was “crazy” when she offered to carry the child.
“I told her she’s crazy… we haven’t cried like this in years,” said Constantina, who had seven failed pregnancy attempts.
Pantos, who heads a fertility clinic in Athens, said he had personal reservations about the pregnancy but convinced to go ahead after a Larissa court approved it.
“Because of the grandmother’s age, it’s the first time such a ruling issued,” he said.
The oldest woman to have given birth is believed to be Omkari Panwar, from India.
Who a twin boy and girl in July 2009. She claimed to be 70, although she had no birth certificate.
However, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the oldest officially recognised mother is Maria del Carmen Bousada Lara from Spain.
Who 66 years and 358 old when she gave birth to twin boys in Barcelona in 2006.
Miss Bousada de Lara died from cancer in 2009, leaving her sons orphaned before their third birthday.
67-year-old Greek grandmother give birth baby girl become oldest surrogate mother in World.
The former shop worker, who was single, sparked controversy over her decision to become a mother so late in life.
Her own family called her “selfish and irresponsible” for rendering it so likely that her children would orphaned.
She admitted lying about her age to doctors in order to receive fertility treatment at a private clinic in Los Angeles, for which she paid a reported £30,000.
Shortly after the birth of her sons by caesarean section in Barcelona, Miss Bousada de Lara defended her decision.
“I have wanted to a mother all my life, but I never had the opportunity, or met the right man,” she said.
Woman becomes ‘World’s Oldest’ surrogate mother
Britain’s oldest first time mother is Elizabeth Adeney, from Lindgate in Suffolk.
Who gave birth to a son at the age of 66, in May 2009.
Mrs Adeney travelled to Ukraine for IVF treatment, as clinics here do not treat women aged over 50.
At the time of her son Jolyon’s birth, at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, she said:
“It’s not physical age that is important – it’s how I feel inside. Some days I feel 39. Others, I feel 56.”
