MADRID, Spain (Dec. 30) - A 67-year-old Spanish woman became the world's oldest mother after she gave birth to twins in the northern city of Barcelona on Saturday, a hospital official said.

The woman, whose identity has not been revealed by Sant Pau hospital, gave birth by caesarian section on Saturday having previously undergone in vitro fertilization in the United States, according to the national news agency EFE.

Originally from the southern region of Andalucia, the new mother chose the Barcelona hospital because it specializes in high-risk births.


The mother and twins are all doing well though the babies are both in incubators, a hospital spokeswoman said. The hospital did not reveal the gender of the twins.

The previous holder of the oldest mother record was 66-year-old Romanian citizen Adriana Iliescu who gave birth to baby Eliza Maria in Jan. 2005.

I heard that somewhere the other day. I don't understand why they wanna have kids so late in life.

I don't think it's fair to the kids to do that.

yeah, I mean, the mom is going to be 80 by the time the kids are only 13!

She could die of old age before the kids graduate!

:wacko What are people like this thinking?! A lot of people die in there seventies so this women might not even see her children make it into the second grade!

Yah I don't understand why people would have kids that late in life.

One of my best friends growing up's parents were old like in their 50s when we were in middle school and I remember how hard it was on him. I just don't see why someone would want to have kids when they are that old anyways

My dad was 60 when I graduated.. and I don't look at him any differently. I tell him that he could be one of my grandparents, but he knows I'm joking about it.

wow..thats really old to have kids..im 14 right now and my dad is only 40.

Wow I knew a lot of people in middle school with parents in their 50s.
And now too.