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A 65-YEAR-old Berlin woman who already has 13 children is pregnant again with quadruplets, German media are reporting today.
The Russian and English teacher’s pregnancy follows several attempts abroad at artificial insemination over the last year and a half, German RTL broadcaster said.
The woman, Annegret Raunigk, decided to try to have another child because her youngest daughter, who is nine, wanted a little brother or sister, RTL said on its website.
No major complications
The TV channel will broadcast an interview with the expectant mother, who has seven grandchildren, on Monday evening.
It said the pregnancy had so far been without any major complications and that if everything went well, the babies were due in the summer and that Raunigk would be the world’s oldest mother of quadruplets.
Mass circulation newspaper Bild am Sonntag also reported the four-baby pregnancy, quoting the mum-to-be as saying the news had initially come as a shock.
“After the doctor discovered there were four, I had to give it some thought to begin with,” Bild quoted her as saying, adding that she had not considered it an option to reduce the number of embryos.
Asked about the moral implications, RTL quoted her as saying:
I think, one must decide that for oneself.
Bild also reported on Raunigk 10 years ago when she gave birth to her 13th child and quoted her at the time as saying she had only initially envisaged having one.
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Does that mean the help desk will stop ringing me?
Probably, I’m waiting for the whinge brigade to blame the government for all the job losses……
Windows Vista and Windows 8..need i say more?
You could say something more relevant. Nokia.
Please don’t.
IF it does affect any Irish workforce, let the government know mid September, ya know, when they’re back at work.
Oh and windows 8, something something..
So much for the ‘Knowledge Economy”…
Ah yes, it’s FG/Labour fault a multi national company purchases another company and decides to slim down….. never let the facts stand in the way of a good whinge….
Microsoft is so last Monday..
Microsoft are pure pants.
They bought Nokia for the expertise and IP it has. Now they’re just basically jettisoning the staff that came as part of the deal.
Or maybe making room for the staff of Nokia?
127,000 employees? That’s some wage bill every week. The mind boggles ..
Microsoft has had its day. With their over-complex installation systems, constant failing updates, virus’s and clunkiness. Give me apple over it any day!! Hate them!
They can’t help it if some people are too stupid to use their software.
What does this have to do with Windows? MS have been in the mobile market for a long time. If anyone can get Nokia competing well with Samsung or Apple it’s them
Apple…. Future rulers of Earth if sheep like you do not wake up.
Any computer is capable of breaking if people don’t know how to look after it. Windows inherently isn’t faulty. Its the build of it thats shat out as an OEM version. I bought Windows From Microsoft to run on my a mac side by side. that computer does everything and windows runs perfectly without a peep as does mac os. If you know what your doing most things work and stay working.
Watch this space…everyone will be raving about Microsoft(Nokia) smartphones in circum 12 months
What a shame to see such a large population of soon to be unemployed peoples. While the standard line people trolley out is that big multinational corporations create jobs, which is truthful to the certain extent, the mergers and acquisitions side of big business tends to do the opposite.
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