She
was utterly determined to have a son.The fact that to do so would make
70-year-old Omkari Panwar the world's oldest mother didn't even cross
her mind.Her resolve was matched by her husband Charan Singh Panwar, 77.
Omkari
and her twins (a boy with white hat and a girl) on the day after they
were discharged from hospitalNow the pensioner parents will rely on
family handouts and the charity of fellow villagers to bring up the
little boy they so wanted, and the little girl they didn't.But the
Panwars, who live in a tiny community in Uttar Pradesh, North India,
were delighted to finally see and hold their two babies, now weighing a
healthy 4lbs, six weeks after they were born on June 27.'We have not
been able to see or hold them all this time," said frail Omkari. "They
had to stay in the hospital because they were so small.'We could not
afford to stay there, so we had to leave them.' And she added: 'We paid
all this money to the doctors for a son, but now we have the extra
burden of another daughter as well.' Boys are cherished in India because
daughters are not allowed to inherit property but leave to marry and
become part of their new husband's family.The twins were born at 34
weeks by emergency caesarian section at a hospital in the nearest town
of Muzaffarnagar.They weighed just 2lbs each and had to be rushed to the
Jaswant Roy Speciality Hospital which has a neonatal intensive care
unit.
The
world's oldest mum, who gave birth to twins at 70 after IVF, proudly
showed off her son, then admitted: 'Now I've got another daughter to
feed too.'Omkari Panwar, and her husband Charan Singh Panwar, 77,
underwent IVF all for the sake of producing a male heir to take over the
family's smallholdings.The elderly Indian couple, who already have two
daughters in their thirties, and five grandchildren, are near destitute
after mortgaging their land, selling their buffalo and taking out a loan
for the £4,400 fertility treatment.
Proud parents: Omkari Panwar, 70, with her husband Charan, 77(unic77)
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