A 62-year-old Spanish woman just gave to birth to her third child – a healthy baby girl.
A doctor in the northwestern town of Lugo, Lina Alvarez, is a mom again at an age when more people are thinking of retirement rather than diapers. She gave birth to a daughter – also named Lina – via C-section after her blood pressure shot up.
“I’m the happiest person on the planet. Everything went perfectly,” Alvarez said, according to the Sun
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Her daughter was born at Lucas Augusti Hospital two weeks early and weighing 5 lbs., 3 oz.
“I’m looking forward to resting for at least a couple of days now, so I can enjoy time with my daughter and recover,” Alvarez said. “My emotions have got the better of me, and I’ve been crying a lot out of happiness.”
Alvarez has two other children – 28-year-old Exiquio and 10-year-old Samuel – and, when she announced publicly that she was eight months pregnant, she received a great deal of criticism amid calls for a law limiting the age at which women can obtain fertility treatment.
Her son Samuel was conceived via in-vitro fertilization (IVF) when Alvarez was 52 – 10 years after she went through menopause. When trying to get pregnant for the third time, she had to travel to Madrid to see a gynecologist because many clinics in Lugo refused to take her case.
“I always wanted to be a mother again, but most medical experts said ‘no.’” she told the Sun. “Then some years ago, I met a gynecologist who agreed to help me if the tests were OK. They were positive, and so he helped me implant an embryo.”
“They said there was only a 6 percent chance of success, but I got pregnant with a baby girl. I feel like I’m having a second chance, and the pregnancy has made me younger and stronger.”
She also brushed off criticism that she was too old to take care of a newborn.
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