Mabel, a 62-year-old Argentine, became the oldest woman to become a mother in the country after giving birth to a boy last Wednesday. According to the local press, David was born at the San Felipe de San Nicolás Hospital, in the province of Buenos Aires, weighing 2,750 kg.
"Menopause is not an obstacle": Argentine woman gives birth at 62
Mabel, a 62-year-old Argentine, became the oldest woman to become a mother in the country after giving birth to a boy last Wednesday. According to the local press, David was born at the San Felipe de San Nicolás Hospital, in the province...
He was born perfectly healthy", he added at the time. David was born by caesarean section, after a pregnancy Mabel described as “perfect”.
- He was conceived through IVF treatment because “menopause cannot be an obstacle.” To the Argentine press, the woman told that her desire to be a mother is not new, despite having “entered...
- I prayed, channeled all my energy and felt deep in my heart that I would be a mother.
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“My son David was born today”, celebrated Mabel on Wednesday, in an interview with the local newspaper Diario El Norte.
"I'm very well. He was born perfectly healthy", he added at the time.
David was born by caesarean section, after a pregnancy Mabel described as “perfect”. He was conceived through IVF treatment because “menopause cannot be an obstacle.”
To the Argentine press, the woman told that her desire to be a mother is not new, despite having “entered menopause many years ago”.
"I didn't give up. I'm a woman of great faith. I prayed, channeled all my energy and felt deep in my heart that I would be a mother. Until the day I made the decision and took the step", she told Diario El Norte.
She told the Argentine newspaper Clarín that she always felt incomplete and “with a bitter taste in her mouth”.
"Even if you travel, write a book, plant a tree, fall in love and have the most handsome man. Nothing would fulfill me if I weren't a mother", she confessed.
She then decided to start studying her possibilities, despite having “friends and family who didn't believe” in her ability to carry the pregnancy forward. At the institute run by Matías Colabianchi, a gynecologist specializing in reproductive medicine, she was informed that she had a healthy uterus and could undergo in vitro fertilization treatment.
"Everything went perfectly: the treatment worked, the embryo formed, I had a wonderful pregnancy and David was born. I'm very happy," he said.
Romina Ruffini, the obstetrician who followed the case, highlighted that Mabel was a “very collaborative patient”, remaining “always very calm”. Furthermore, the woman “completed everything that was asked of her with dedication and rigor” and “placed complete trust in the doctors”.
Mabel confessed to Clarín that she has a “strong personality” and that, thanks to this, she was able to have a child.
"Yes, I'm 62 years old, I'm retired and I'm a mother. I have a strong personality. That's how I managed to have a child", she highlighted.
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