A 65-year-old teacher in Berlin, Germany, who’s already a mother of 13, is now pregnant with quadruplets. Her story will be featured in a documentary.
Annegret Raunigk became pregnant after she sought out donors to be artificially inseminated. Both sperm and eggs were donated to make it happen.
Daily Mail reports she said she’s “still quite fit” and said of her pregnancy, “I don’t think I will have any problems.”
It’s shocking that she’s pregnant at 65 but it was also shocking almost 10 years ago when she had her daughter, Leila, at the age of 55.
Her oldest child is 44, and Raunigk has seven grandchildren. “I think one needs to decide for oneself and not listen too much to the opinions of others,” she said of having four more children.
Raunigk told German newspaper RTL she decided to go through with IVF because her 9-year-old asked for a sibling.
She will set the record for the oldest woman to give birth to quadruplets but she won’t hold the record for the oldest woman to give birth. Omkari Panwar from India holds that record, who was 70 when she gave birth.