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A 67-YEAR-OLD woman has given birth in China, a hospital said today, with the parents claiming they are the country’s oldest couple to conceive a baby naturally.
The woman, a retired doctor with the surname Tian, had a healthy girl via a Caesarean section on Friday, Zaozhuang city’s Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital told AFP.
“The child was bestowed on the two of us by heaven,” Tian’s 68-year-old husband told Chinese news outlet Guancha.
Tian told the Jinan Times she only discovered she was pregnant when she went to the hospital for a checkup, telling the newspaper: “I didn’t want it, initially.”
The hospital said it could not confirm that Tian had conceived naturally as she was already pregnant when it took her as a patient.
The Global Times reported the new baby girl was called Tianci, meaning “gift from heaven”.
The Jinan Times said Tian has two other children, including a son born in 1977, two years before China imposed a one-child policy to control its burgeoning population.
One-child policy
In 2016, Beijing relaxed its one-child policy, allowing families to have two.
While Tian’s age makes her an outlier, women in China are increasingly delaying childbirth or choosing not to have children after decades of strict family planning policies that have made small families the norm.
The age at which the average Chinese woman has her first child rose from 24.3 years in 2006 to 26.9 years in 2016, according to a report this year by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
While the two-child policy has had a smaller effect on China’s birth count than expected, it has prompted more older women to consider having second children.
Around 51% of newborns in 2017 were second children, compared to around 40% in 2016, the Economist Intelligence Unit report said.
Other women in their 60s and 70s have given birth in recent years, though generally after having fertility treatment.
The China Daily reported in December 2016 that a 64-year-old woman gave birth to a baby boy by Caesarean section after IVF treatment in the country’s northeast Jilin province.
In 2016, a woman in India gave birth to her first child in her 70s, following two years of IVF treatment.
A 65-year-old German woman was reported to have given birth to quadruplets in 2015, after undergoing an artificial insemination procedure in Ukraine.
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I have the fear fair bad today
Did ya know going on the lash cures the fear.
I had serious fear myself Sunday morning. Was grand do in the end.. Few more for the “cure”.
Wouldn’t believe a word out of anyone when asked how much they drink. People under the age of 30 will exaggerate and over 30′s will under estimate. Nonsense statistics
I hate the way people boast about how much they have drank. They should be knocking a few off the amount instead of adding a few on. I have never heard it done in any other country.
Denial denial denial…….denial is one of the strongest characteristics /indicators of someone who has A SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH ALCOHOL/DRUG ABUSE.
I forgot to say ……Blaming someone/something else for your bad drinking habits/choices is also another strong indicator of alcohol abuse.
FFS, the Irish media and the UK media are exactly the same when it comes to alcohol consumption, what is it with all the rubbish concern about how much we drink, we will all drink as much as we like even if we know that we are drinking too much no matter what those who think they know better tell us. Lately here in the UK it’s demonisation of middle aged women who are now cause for concern for drinking too much wine after work, reading Irish media I see the same crap telling people what is good for them. Please stop demonising peoples escape habits as it is causing me to drink more than is recommended of my current favorite red from Portugal.
Cheers
If we get any better at drinking, They will be advertising jobs for
Tail gunner on a Guinness delivery truck soon.
At least we’re good at something
Yep, drugs and alcohol always seem to make the shit we’re in, appear better than reality, I think? Might be an idea to improve our idea of a just and decent society for all and not just the 3D rich?
Have to love all the whining about the recession and supposed difficulties making ends meet when the average person apparently spends ~€30 on alcohol every week.
Sobering Stats !
I drink roughly 125L. Whisky/yr. – Never caused trouble, never hurt anyone, – only myself.
Death by whisky, – way to go…
The fear is DTS serious stuff when that happens!
Lightweights!
I remember my first beer…
Depends on the company one keeps. Go figure!
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