'World's oldest parents' both in intensive care after delivering twins

[Demovictory9]

https://nypost.com/2019/09/14/worlds-oldest-parents-in-intensive-care-after-delivering-twins/Their newborn twins are fine, but not so for the “world’s oldest parents” — both are in intensive care.



The couple from India, both in their 70s, had created an international stir back on Sept. 5, when their baby girls — conceived through a donor egg and delivered by cesarean section — arrived full-term and healthy.


74-year-old woman gives birth to twins through IVF: report
Not surprisingly, it’s now the babies’ elderly mom and dad who are not doing so well, The Times of London reports.

And as the new parents — mom is 74, and dad is 78 — remain in an Indian ICU, new controversy is whirling in the already ethically suspect case.

The doctor who handled the pregnancy is insisting he was tricked into believing that the mom was in her 60s.

“It was only by chance, after she had conceived, that her husband let out accidentally to one of the nurses her real age,” Dr. Sanakkayala Umashankar told The Times of London.

“I was livid!”

Mom Erramatti Mangayamma has been in intensive care since the delivery.

Dad Raja Rao on the other hand, started out strong, crowing to the press just hours after he and his wife became first-time parents.

“Due to the grace of God and doctors, I am the proud father of two baby girls,” he bragged.

“We are the happiest couple on earth today.”

But a day later, he collapsed from a heart attack.

He remains in the ICU at the Ahalya Nursing Home in Guntur, in the southern state of Adhra Pradesh, the Times reports.

His wife is there, too. Doctors are not releasing information on their illnesses, except to say both are stable.

Meanwhile, the twins, who have yet to be named, are putting on weight nicely.

[JI7]

1. fucking idiots, and the fucking doctor should lose their license .

[3Hotdogs]

6. Why? I don't blame the doctor. What's wrong with a 60 year old woman giving birth?

The doc. was told she was in her 60's. He didn't do nuthin' wrong.

[Ilsa]

7. I'm about her age, and am in better shape

than many in their thirties. I wouldn't entertain the notion of another pregnancy for anything. It is a developmental stage of life. Will they have the energy to raise them, play with them, take time to understand their culture of youth? Parenting is usually exhausting. Their fragility after giving birth may be a sign that they were less than eligible to handle the trials ahead.

Sure they could do it. But is it ethically right and fair to them and other family members?

[LisaL]

8. I am not sure they can do it.

Dad had a heart attack, mom has some unspecified condition keeping them in intensive care. At their age, who know how much they have left, considering their health?
Somebody presumably will have to step in at some point to raise the children.

[tblue37]

9. Their babies would almost certainly end up orphaned young, even without this

setback to the parents' health. The world is pretty rough for most orphans. I wouldn't want to do that to a child.

[rampartc]

2. ethically suspect?

i'm almost 70 and would never consider fathering a child that I will be incapable of raising.

the wife and I talk about it but always as a joke.

[blueinredohio]

3. Pure insanity

[LisaL]

4. I hope they got relatives willing to step in to raise the twins.

[Demovictory9]

11. they do.

[get the red out]

5. Did anyone think this through at all?

I know people that age afraid to adopt pets they might leave.

[3catwoman3]

12. Excellent...

...point.

[Hortensis]

10. I decline to get all reactionary about everything, especially since

a few hundred million people in India alone have had this one covered for a while. Assume the couple paid for the IVF, but mom spent 8 months in hospital...

At least those 2 healthy baby girls get to exist. Don't know who'll raise them, but if it was their choice of whether to live or not?

According to BBC, the couple had tried to get pregnant, post-menopause, through the help of doctors for years and were constantly stigmatized in their village for being childless. “Neighbors would call me ‘godralu’ [a curse word for a childless woman]. However, my husband stood by me like a rock,”