Woman gives birth at 54 years old
A Ugandan woman has given birth at the age of 54, ten years after reaching menopause.
The woman, a university lecturer, delivered a baby boy at the Women's Hospital International and Fertility Centre in Kampala on Thursday last week.
The baby boy is fondly known as Baby Precious. He weighed 3.1 kg at birth which doctors said was a normal weight. He has been breastfeeding.
I am ecstatic. I feel excited. I turned 54 the day I had him. We will have two birthdays to celebrate on the same day,
said the mother, who protected her identity to safeguard her child from unnecessary stigmatization when he grows up.
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Originally posted on November 21, 2009
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