{"id":700597,"date":"2019-09-07T08:39:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T08:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/07\/indian-woman-73-gives-birth-to-twin-girls\/"},"modified":"2019-09-07T08:39:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T08:39:18","slug":"indian-woman-73-gives-birth-to-twin-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/07\/indian-woman-73-gives-birth-to-twin-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian woman, 73, gives birth to twin girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A 73-year-old woman in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has given birth to twin girls.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors delivered the twins, who were born following IVF treatment, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mother and the babies are doing well,\u201d Dr Uma Sankar, the woman\u2019s doctor, told BBC Telugu.<\/p>\n<p>Mangayamma Yaramati said she and her husband, who is 82 years old, have always wanted children but had been unable to conceive until now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are incredibly happy,\u201d her husband Sitarama Rajarao told BBC Telugu on Thursday, hours after the babies were born.<\/p>\n<p>But just a day later, Mr Rajarao suffered a sudden stroke and is currently being treated in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing is in our hands. Whatever should happen will happen. It is all in the hands of God,\u201d Mr Rajarao had said when asked who would care for the children in case anything were to happen to the couple due to their advanced age.<\/p>\n<p>Having children was important to the couple, who also said that they felt stigmatised in their village.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey would call me a childless lady,\u201d Ms Yaramati said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe tried many times and saw numerous doctors,\u201d she added, \u201cso this is the happiest time of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The twin girls were delivered by Caesarean section, which is the usual method in such rare cases.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, another Indian woman in her 70s, Daljinder Kaur, gave birth to a boy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 73-year-old woman in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has given birth to twin girls. Doctors delivered the twins, who were born following IVF treatment, on Thursday. \u201cThe mother and the babies are doing well,\u201d Dr Uma Sankar, the woman\u2019s doctor, told BBC Telugu. 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