72-Year-Old Woman Delivers Baby Boy Through IVF

This is the second case of a woman over 70 years of age becoming a mother at the Hisar-based IVF centre.

Parents Mohinder Singh Gill (R), 79, and Daljinder Kaur, 72, pose for a photograph as they hold their newborn baby boy Armaan at their home in Amritsar Wednesday. (Photo: PTI)

A 72-year-old woman has delivered a baby after 46 years of her marriage at a Hisar-based fertility centre.

The couple - Mohinder Singh Gill (79) and his wife Daljinder Kaur – were childless and decided to have a baby through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) three years ago.

In IVF technique, eggs are collected from the woman’s ovaries and then fertilised by husband’s processed sperms in a test tube in a controlled laboratory environment. The resulting embryos are then deposited into the woman’s uterus.

Dr Anurag Bishnoi, the embryologist at the Hisar-based fertility clinic who oversaw the entire IVF process said this is the second case in which a woman over 70 years of age has become a mother at the centre.

Earlier, Rajo Devi, a resident of Jind district in Haryana, had become mother through IVF at the age of 70 years in 2008.

Gill and his wife are happy to become parents even at their age. They have named the baby boy Armaan.