Daljinder Kaur has become a mother 46 years after her marriage.
By Sreekanth A. Nair
A 72-year-old woman from Amritsar in Punjab gave birth to a baby boy on April 19, at the National Fertility and Test Tube Baby Centre in Hisar, Haryana, through the in-vitro fertilization (IVF-test tube) technique.
Daljinder Kaur fulfilled her dream 46 years after her marriage and about 20 years after her menopause, reported The Hindustan Times.
“The woman came to me alone first in 2013, after reading about us in a paper,†Dr. Anurag Bishnoi, embryologist, and owner of the National Fertility and Test Tube Baby Centre in Hisar, was quoted as saying by Hindustan Times.
Kaur conceived in July last year after two failed IVF cycles and gave birth to a healthy baby boy last month.
Giving her all support, Daljinder Kaur’s husband Mohinder Singh Gill, 79, had been traveling with her from Amritsar in Punjab to Hisar in Haryana from 2013 onwards.
“Our track record in handling IVF in older women has been fairly good, but not everyone is fit to conceive. In her case, she looked visibly frail too, so I had to refer her to a cardiologist to get clearance for the procedure and a battery of other tests to ascertain fitness levels,†said Dr. Bishnoi.
A 66-year-old woman had given birth to three children in 2008 from the same hospital.
“It was embarrassing to not be able to produce a child, no doubt, but we have been busy with litigation all our life and hardly had time to think it over,†Mohinder Singh Gill said.