Having a baby at 60

The 60-year-old woman who gave birth using artificial insemination (IVF) at Hai Phong Obstetrics Hospital is considered a rare case.

On June 13, Associate Professor, Dr. Vu Van Tam, Director of Hai Phong Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, said that for women over 50 years old, the ability to have children naturally is very difficult and very few cases still have eggs. Therefore, IVF is also difficult. Women who become pregnant and give birth at an older age are at higher risk of high blood pressure, preeclampsia, and diabetes than normal. The baby also faces many risks.

In this case, the couple had two children (a boy and a girl), but the son unfortunately died in an accident at the age of 20. After the incident, the couple wished to have more children, but as they got older, they could not conceive naturally.

In 2022, when she was 59 and her husband was 62, they both went to the Reproductive Support Center, Hai Phong Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital to do in vitro fertilization (IVF). Doctors assessed that conceiving at this age would have many risks for both mother and child. Luckily, on the second embryo transfer, she became pregnant.

In early June, she went into labor and had a cesarean section, giving birth to a healthy baby girl weighing 3.1 kg.

Mother and child after giving birth. Photo: Provided by the hospital

In Vietnam, most pregnant women over 50 years old use assisted reproductive technology. The oldest case is a 61-year-old woman in Hanoi who became pregnant through in vitro fertilization using a donor egg and her husband's sperm. A baby girl was born in 2018 weighing 2.6 kg. Another 60-year-old woman in Bac Giang gave birth to her third child, also through IVF. A woman who gave birth to a son at the age of 58, two years after menopause, had to use another person's egg for IVF.

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Thuy Quynh

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