Parents Mohinder Singh Gill (r), 79, and Daljinder Kaur, 70, pose for a photograph as they hold their newborn baby boy Arman at their home in Amritsar, Punjab, May 11. (Press Trust of India)<\/p>\n
A 72-year-old woman has delivered a baby after 46 years of her marriage at a Hisar-based fertility center. (#Parenting, #IVF, #community, @Siliconeer, #Siliconeer)<\/p>\n
The couple, Mohinder Singh Gill (79) and his wife Daljinder Kaur, were childless and decided to have a baby through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) three years ago.<\/p>\n
“They (couple) came to us three years ago as they did not have a child even after several years of their marriage,” Dr. Anurag Bishnoi, owner of National Fertility and Test Tube Baby Center in Chandigarh, said, May 10.<\/p>\n
“The first two attempts failed. But Daljinder conceived in third attempt last year,” he told PTI over phone.<\/p>\n
“The baby boy and mother are healthy,” he said.<\/p>\n
In IVF technique, eggs are collected from the woman’s ovaries and then fertilized by husband’s processed sperms in a test tube in a controlled laboratory environment. The resulting embryos are then deposited into the women’s uterus.<\/p>\n
Bishnoi said this is the second case in which a woman over 70 years of age has become a mother at the center.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Rajo Devi, a resident of Jind district in Haryana, had become mother through IVF at the age of 70 years in 2008.<\/p>\n
Gill and his wife are feeling great at becoming parents at their age.<\/p>\n
They have named the baby boy Armaan.<\/p>\n
When asked about the feeling of having a baby at this age, she said, “People have different dreams but everything happens when God wants.”<\/p>\n
“I don’t care about what people are going to say, the fact that I have been blessed with motherhood is more important,” she said.<\/p>\n
Daljinder said, “My husband and I never gave up hope of becoming parents.”<\/p>\n
When asked would it be difficult to bring up a child at this ripe old age, she said, “That thought never crossed my mind. God will take care of everything.”<\/p>\n
Daljinder said she earlier had miscarriages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Parents Mohinder Singh Gill (r), 79, and Daljinder Kaur, 70, pose for a photograph as they hold their newborn baby boy Arman at their home in Amritsar, Punjab, May 11. (Press Trust of India) A 72-year-old woman has delivered a baby after 46 years of her marriage at a Hisar-based fertility center. (#Parenting, #IVF, #community,…<\/p>\n