The Nigerian 68-year-old woman becomes not only the oldest mother in Nigeria but also the oldest mother in Africa. Photo credit: courtesy
The Nigerian 68-year-old woman becomes not only the oldest mother in Nigeria but also the oldest mother in Africa. Photo credit: courtesy

68-year-old woman gives birth to set of twins for the first time at Lagos University Teaching Hospital

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A 68-year-old Primigravida woman has made history not only in her home country Nigeria but across Africa.

The Lagos University Teaching Hospital, popularly known as LUTH in Idi Araba has shared tremendous, miraculous news of a 68-year-old woman who gave birth to twins making her the first oldest woman in Africa to give birth.

The woman delivered her set of twins – a boy and a girl – through an elective Caesarean section on April 14.

Releasing an official statement, Lagos University Teaching Hospital(LUTH) through Prof Wasiu L. Adeyemo said, “She was delivered through an elective Caesarean section at 37 weeks gestation on Tuesday 14th April 2020.

“The IVF and embryo transfer were done at an outside facility,” Prof Wasiu L. Adeyemo, the CMAC of LUTH who corroborated the good news continued. “She was thereafter referred to LUTH at early gestation stage and subsequently managed till term.”

The 68-year-old woman was a Primigravida(a first time mother) gave birth at Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba. Photo credit: courtesy
The 68-year-old woman was a Primigravida(a first time mother) gave birth at Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba. Photo credit: courtesy

A Chinese pensioner who is 67 years old, surnamed Tian, delivered a healthy girl by Caesarean section last year in October in Zaozhuang city’s Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital confirmed while the world’s oldest mother is reported to be a 74-year-old Indian woman.

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