“God Of The Eleventh Hour Will Never Disappoint” โ€“ Reactions As 68-Year-Old Nigerian Woman Gives Birth To Twins After 30 Years Of Marriage (photos) Congratulations ??

The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital has announced the successful delivery of twins by a 68-year old woman.

The chairman of the hospitalโ€™s Medical Advisory Council, Prof Wasiu Adeyemo, made the announcement in a statement on Sunday.

It said the woman gave birth through an โ€œelective cesarean section at 37 weeks gestation.โ€

The babies and mother are doing well, it added.

Heย said the woman was delivered of the babies onย  14 via caesarean section.

According to Adeyemo the woman, became pregnant for the first time courtesy of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF).

He said: โ€œLUTH has successfully delivered a sixty-eight (68) year old primigravida (pregnant for the first time) with twin (a male and a female) gestation (pregnancy) following an IVF conception. She was delivered through an elective caesarean section at 37 weeks gestation on Tuesday,ย  4,

According Cable, Adeyemo noted thatย  โ€œthe IVF and embryo were done at a separate location but later referred to LUTH during the early stage of the pregnancy where it was consequently managed until delivery.

โ€œThe development was the first of its kind in LUTH, Nigeria and Africa, adding that both the mother and babies are in a good state.

โ€œThe IVF and embryo transfer were done at an outside facility. She was thereafter referred to LUTH at early gestation and managed till term. This is the first in LUTH, Nigerian and Africa! Mother and babies are well.โ€

 

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