A 65-year-old woman has given birth to
quadruplets- meaning she now has 17 children.
Annegret Raunigk, a teacher from Berlin, Germany, gave birth
to a girl, Neeta, and three boys – Dries, Bence and Fjonn – by caesarean
section at a Berlin hospital on Tuesday.
The four newborns weighed between one lb, seven ounces and
two lbs, two ounces each. The children were said to be healthy but were being
moitored as they had been born prematurely at only 26 weeks.
Ms Raunigk was dsaid to be doing ‘well’ after the birth.
‘Ms Raunigk basically has no medical
risk any more,’ Heike Speda told The Associated Press.
The mother was widely criticised by medical professionals in
the country for choosing to have more children at the age of 65.
Ms Raunigk already has 13 children ranging in age from nine to 44,
from five fathers. She gave birth to her last child Leila aged 55.
She told Germany’s Bild newspaper last month that she decided to
become pregnant again because her nine-year-old daughter wanted a younger
sibling. She also has seven grandchildren.
Ms Raunigk travelled abroad to have donated, fertilised eggs
implanted – a procedure that is illegal in Germany.
Her decision prompted criticism from doctors, who questioned
whether her body would be physically capable of bearing four children.
But Ms Raunigk defended her decision, telling Bild last month:
‘They can see it how they want to and I’ll see it the way I think is right.’
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