Grandmother Gives Birth To Quadruplets At Age 65

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BERLIN, May 23 (Reuters) - A 65-year-old German grandmother gave birth to quadruplets at a Berlin hospital this week, with the three boys and a girl born prematurely at 26 weeks being in good health and having a good chance of survival, German TV network RTL reported on Saturday.

The network, which had covered the pregnancy, said Annegret Raunigk already had 13 children and seven grandchildren. The announcement of her pregnancy last month had sparked a public in Germany debate about its merits.

Raunigk, an English and Russian teacher in Berlin, had received fertility treatment in Ukraine and is the oldest woman in the world to have had quadruplets, RTL said, although other women of her age and older have given birth.

The four babies, born by Cesarean section on May 19, weighed between 655 grams an 960 grams.

Thoughts?

 

[seasidemike]

that's messed up
It is not natural

 

[Jazzy]

This woman will not live long enough to raise these 4 children, nor remain healthy and physically capable to contribute in a meaningful way to their up-bringing. It will be her other 13 children who deal with the results of her absolutely selfish act.

I do not applaud this woman. If she wanted to be around children she could have volunteered at a school, at a children's organization, she could have been a baby rocker in the pediatrics ward of a hospital or any other of dozens of options to be around children.

 

[seasidemike]

This woman will not live long enough to raise these 4 children, nor remain healthy and physically capable to contribute in a meaningful way to their up-bringing. It will be her other 13 children who deal with the results of her absolutely selfish act.

I do not applaud this woman. If she wanted to be around children she could have volunteered at a school, at a children's organization, she could have been a baby rocker in the pediatrics ward of a hospital or any other of dozens of options to be around children.

I agree, she will be lucky to see their 10th birthdays, how fair is that to those kids?

 

[Evil Eye]

I agree, she will be lucky to see their 10th birthdays

Actually, the life expectancy for women in Germany is 83 so she has a decent chance of making it to their 18th birthday.

Still messed up though.