The couple, from India, have
been married for 47 years but only decided to seek fertility treatment following
the end of a family feud.
The couple are celebrating
the arrival of their first child despite both being in their SEVENTIES.
Pensioners Daljinder Kaur,
72, from Amritsar, and her 79-year-old husband Mohinder Singh Gill, gave birth
to a healthy baby boy on April 19.
Gill, a farmer, said:
“I felt upset as I was
unable to produce a child.
“After sometime we thought
of having a baby, once again.”
The couple have been
travelling from their home in Amritsar, Punjab, to the National Fertility and
Test Tube Baby Centre in Hisar, Haryana, to receive IVF treatment since 2013.
Daljinder Kaur is happy to
have a baby boy, who they’ve named Arman Singh.
The mother said:
“It was very important for
us. I can live happily now. My life is complete.”
Workers at the fertility
clinic said they were initially sceptical about offering her treatment until
medical reports proved she was a suitable candidate.
Anurag Bishnoi, who runs
the fertility clinic, said:
“I first tried to avoid the
case because she was very weak, but then her medical reports were normal and
she was fit to conceive.”
This is the second case at
the centre where a woman in her seventies has delivered successfully following
IVF.
In 2006, 70-year-old Rajo
Devi gave birth to a baby girl from the same centre, making her the world’s
oldest mother at the time.
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