Indian woman, 66, gives birth to triplets

An Indian woman has become the oldest person in the world to have triplets at the age of 66. After being childless for 44 years of marriage Bhateri Devi gave birth to two boys and a girl. ‘Bhateri has fulfilled my dream of having a child and gave my family an heir,’ said husband Deva Singh, 64.

‘She was my first wife and after she failed to conceive a child, I married twice – but again I did not have any children from my other wives either.’ Devi, from Madina in Rohtak, northern India, was given IVF treatment at the National Fertility Center in Hisar.

It is the same clinic where Rajo Devi Lohan, the world’s oldest mother, was controversially treated, aged 70. ‘Bhateri Devi was coming to us for the treatment. She has become a mother for the first time and conceived only in our third attempt through IVF technique,’ said Dr Anurag Bishnoi.

The triplets, weighing 1.1kg (2lbs 6oz), 1kg (2lbs 4oz) and 0.7kg (1lb 7oz), are dangerously underweight and are being treated in intensive care. They were born by Cesarean section on May 29. ‘I will provide all the best facilities for my children in the coming years,’ promised Mr Singh.