A 64-year-old woman has successfully given birth to healthy
twins - a boy and a girl - in Burgos, northern Spain.
The Recoletas Hospital delivered the twins by Caesarean section,
the usual method in such rare cases.
The unnamed woman had undergone
fertility treatment in the US, Spanish media report. The hospital has posted a video clip of
the Caesarean delivery.
No decision has been taken yet about the mother's twins. They
and the mother are reported to be in good health in hospital. The boy weighs
2.4kg (5.3 pounds) and the girl 2.2kg (4.8 pounds).
The delivery went
without complications.
In
recent years, El Pais reports, two other Spanish women in their 60s have given
birth to healthy babies.
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