Good News: After 4 IVF attempts, 68-year-old Nigerian woman gives birth to twins

After being married for 46 years and going through three previous IVF procedures, Margaret Adenuga finally gives birth to twins, a boy, and a girl at the age of 68.

Margaret Adenuga and her husband Noah with their twins at the maternity ward of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital.

Source: LUTH

Her husband Noah Adenuga, 77 told CNN the couple, who married in 1974 had long desired to have a child of their own and that they never gave up even after the failed attempts. The retired stock auditor told CNN, "I am a dreamer, and I was convinced this particular dream of ours will come to pass."

The babies were delivered on the 14^th of April via caesarian section at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) but the hospital only recently made the news public to give the first-time mother time to recuperate, it said.

Dr. Adeyemi Okunowo, who delivered the babies, said a specialist team was assembled at the hospital to monitor the pregnancy because of her age.

"As an elderly woman and a first-time mother, it was a high-risk pregnancy and also because she was going to have twins but we were able to manage her pregnancy to term," Okunowo told reporters.

Okunowo said even though older women are able to conceive through IVF, doctors must lay bare the medical risks associated with being pregnant at that age.

Big congrats to Margaret on her double bundle of joy even though she doesn’t hold the world record for the oldest first-time mother. Last year, a 73-year-old Indian woman was safely delivered of twin girls after she conceived through IVF and is reported to be the oldest person to give birth at that age.