A woman aged 74 has become the oldest mum in the world – after giving birth to twin daughters.
Erramatti Mangayamma and her 80-year-old husband, Rajarao, married in 1962 and gave up dreams of having a child decades ago.
But the couple, from Nelapartipadu in Andhra Pradesh, eastern India, were given the green light for IVF treatment last year.
The , each weighing 4lb, were delivered by caesarean section on Thursday at a hospital in Guntur.
It made Erramatti the world’s oldest mum, beating the previous record set by Daljinder Kaur, from Punjab, India, who gave birth in 2016, aged 70.
New mum Erramatti told The Times of India: “People looked at me with accusing eyes as if I had committed a sin.
“Neighbours would call me ‘godralu’ (a curse word for a childless woman). However, my husband stood by me like a rock.”
Rajarao, a farmer, said: “We are the happiest couple on earth today. We have our own children.”
Dr Sanakkayala Umasankar said of his patient: “As she is old, she cannot release eggs so we got eggs from a donor and collected sperm from her husband.
“Luckily, she conceived in the first cycle itself. There were no health complications.
“Both the babies are healthy.”
