According to her hospital, a 70-year-old woman who had IVF treatment and welcomed twins has become the oldest woman in Africa to give birth.
The Women’s Hospital International and Fertility Centre in Kampala, Uganda, said that Safina Namukwaya had a caesarean section on Wednesday afternoon and delivered a boy and a girl.
The mother and her two babies, who were born via caesarean section, are doing well, according to hospital doctors.
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“This story isn’t just about medical success; it’s about the strength and resilience of the human spirit,” the hospital declared. It’s thought that Ms. Namukwaya became a mother three times in as many years when she gave birth to a baby girl named Sarah in 2020.
In an interview with the NTV channel, Ms. Namukwaya disclosed that her most recent pregnancy had some challenges and complications. She went on to say that she is no longer with the twins’ father.
The news that you plan to have multiple children is not something that men enjoy to hear. My partner never showed up, even after I was admitted,” Ms. Namukwaya claimed.
IVF is often only available to women under 43 through the UK NHS. But in 2019, an Indian woman who had also undergone IVF became the world’s oldest mother, standing at 74 years old.
And after 40 years of trying for a child, Ms. Namukwaya sought treatment at the Women’s Hospital International and Fertility Centre.
She added that during this trying time, she encountered criticism and censure. “A very young boy heckled at me once, saying I had been cursed by my mother to die without a child,” the woman recalled.
Speaking following the birth of her first child, Sarah, in 2020, Ms. Namukwaya said, “I chose to leave everything to the Almighty God who has finally answered my prayers. Many people judged and abused me for being barren.”
While the NHS generally does not give IVF to women beyond 43, certain private clinics will accept patients in much longer age ranges. The alternative uses donor eggs or eggs that were frozen earlier in the mother’s life.
