She was a mother for the first time at age 73 and gave birth to twins

Mangayamma Yaramati (73), an elderly woman from the state of Andhra Pradesh, in southern India, had twins Thursday after undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment.

This has been confirmed by the Telugu Service Hospital of the BBC. This is an unprecedented birth due to the age of the pregnant woman, married to an 80 year old man.

Yaramati became pregnant by in vitro fertilization and delivered by cesarean section this Thursday in the city of Guntur, in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The mother and the two girls are in good condition.

Dr. Umashankar Sanakkayala, who led a team of ten doctors, badured the DPA agency that it was a "miracle", a "success story". modern medicine ".

"In vitro fertilization does not only depend on science, but also on God's will," he said by phone.

Sanakkayala stated that the school certificate presented by the patient was "authentic" and mentioned as date of birth on July 1, 1946. The Guinness Book Book includes the birth of an older woman than that of Spanish Carmen Bousada 2006, who was almost 67 years old.

"I am very happy, God heard our prayers," Mangayamma told the media, according to the IANS news agency. According to CNN, Mangayamma and her husband, E. Raja Rao, 80, were married in 1962, but they could never conceive naturally and in 2018, they started working with Umashankar in search of a pregnancy, what has been denied them for so many years