Amazing: How 62-Year-Old Woman Conceived And Gave Birth To Her Third Child

A  Spanish doctor in the Northwestern town of Lugo, Lina Alvarez, 62 had just given birth to her healthy baby-girl Lina via C-section. Lina was born at Lucas Augusti Hospital two weeks early and weighing  5 lbs., 3 oz.

According to The Sun, when she announced publicly that she was eight months pregnant, she received a great deal of criticism amid calls for a law limiting the age at which women can obtain fertility treatment.

Her second child, Samuel, was conceived via in-vitro fertilization (IVF) when Alvarez was 52 – 10 years after she went through menopause. When trying to get pregnant for the third time, she had to travel to Madrid to see a gynecologist because many clinics in Lugo refused to take her case.

“I always wanted to be a mother again, but most medical experts said ‘no.’” she told the Sun. “Then some years ago, I met a gynecologist who agreed to help me if the tests were OK. They were positive, and so he helped me implant an embryo.”

“They said there was only a 6 percent chance of success, but I got pregnant with a baby girl. I feel like I’m having a second chance, and the pregnancy has made me younger and stronger.”

“I’m the happiest person on the planet. Everything went perfectly.”

“I’m looking forward to resting for at least a couple of days now, so I can enjoy time with my daughter and recover,”

“My emotions have got the better of me, and I’ve been crying a lot out of happiness.”  Alvarez said,

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Alvarez has two other children – 28-year-old Exiquio and 10-year-old Samuel. She also brushed off criticism that she was too old to take care of a newborn.

“When she is 30, I’ll be 90. She’ll be grown up, and life expectancy for women is growing all the time.”

Alvarez is far from the oldest woman ever to have a child. That record is held by Daljinder Kaur from India, who gave birth last year at the age of 70 after two years of IVF treatment.

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