60-Year-Old Woman Has Twins

When most women are Frieda Birnbaum's age, most are glad to give up the possibility of pregnancy and childbirth. But not Birnbaum. She and her husband have been wed for some 38 years and already have three kids, ages 33, 29, and 6. But Birnbaum decided she wanted younger siblings for her 6-year-old son, and also wanted to remove some of the stigma from older women giving birth.

Birnbaum used in-vitro fertilization to achieve her goal. She traipsed halfway across the globe to visit a Cape Town, South Africa facility, which specializes in older women. The result was not just one, but two babies, born at 12:44 p.m. at the Hackensack University Medical Center. The boys were born Tuesday by Caesarean section and each weighed 4 lbs, 11 oz. Names have not been chosen yet. Strangely enough, Tuesday was also the one-year birthday of twins born to a 59-year-old woman, Lauren Cohen, in New York.