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68 year old woman gives birth to twins, a boy, and a girl .

Margaret Adenuga and her husband Noah with their twins, a boy and a girl on April 19, 2020 at the maternity ward of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria.

Margaret Adenuga went through three previous IVF procedures before finally having twins.

Her husband Noah Adenuga, 77  the couple, who married in 1974 had long desired to have a child of their own.

Adenuga said they never gave up even after the failed attempts.

The retired stock auditor said, “I am a dreamer, and I was convinced this particular dream of ours will come to pass.”

The babies were delivered via caesarian section at 37 weeks last Tuesday at the Lagos University T

eaching Hospital (LUTH) but the hospital only recently made the news public to give the first-time mother time to recuperate, it said.

Dr. Adeyemi Okunowo, who delivered the babies, told a specialist team that was assembled at the hospital to monitor the pregnancy because of her age.

“As an elderly woman and a first-time mother, it was a high-risk pregnancy and also because she was going to have twins but we were able to manage her pregnancy to term,” Okunowo said.

Okunowo said even though older women are able to conceive through IVF, doctors must lay bare the medical risks associated with being pregnant at that age.

“There are age-related medical complications that come with being pregnant at that age such as the baby being born preterm.

She’s lucky but many may succumb to other complications during or after having a baby,” he told media houses

Nigerian woman, 68, gives birth to twins after four IVF attempts

Nigerian mother Margaret Adenuga and her husband Noah with their twins, a boy and a girl on April 19, 2020 at the maternity ward of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria.

On her part, Margaret said she took a lot of inspiration from her husband’s love and confidence in her.

She said Noah stood by her side throughout the years, even though he got massive pressure from his kinsmen to find another wife to bear him children.

“I never lost hope any day anyway. I used to tell him that before we move out of where we are living, we are going to carry our baby. Our baby will leave with us.

Not only one.

They are going to be two. And I’m a church goer. So in church I used to see many testimonies that there is nothing God cannot do. So I have faith in that.

I stood on my faith that God will do it.”

 

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