Calif. woman, 62, gives birth to baby boy (AP) Updated: 2006-02-21 06:48
A 62-year-old woman gave birth Friday to a healthy 6-pound, 9-ounce baby boy,
becoming one of the oldest women in the world to successfully bear a child.
Janise Wulf, 62, gave birth Friday to her 12th
child, a baby boy she named Adam. [AP] | Janise
Wulf gave birth to her 12th child. She is also a grandmother of 20 and a
great-grandmother of three.
Family members said the delivery went smoothly, despite earlier concerns
about the mother's health. Wulf, a diabetic, experienced swelling and higher
blood pressure earlier this week, prompting doctors to perform the Caesarean
section a week early.
Wulf and her third husband, Scott, 48, named the red-haired boy Adam Charles
Wulf. He follows just 3 1/2 years behind his older brother, Ian.
"I hate to raise one alone, without a sibling," said Wulf, who was
impregnated both times through in vitro fertilization.
The oldest woman on record to give birth is a 66-year-old Adriana Iliescu of
Romania, who had a Caesarean section Jan. 15, 2005.
The Guinness Book of World Records also lists two 63-year-old women who have
given birth: Rosanna Della Corte of Italy in 1994 and Acheli Keh of California
in 1996. News reports, however, list Della Corte's age at 62 when she gave
birth.
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