A 70-year-old from Muzaffarnagar, India, became the world’s oldest woman to give birth after she delivered twins Friday.

Omkari Panwar, the wife of a retired farmer, delivered the twins — a boy and girl — via Caesarean section.

Panwar, who has two adult daughters and five grandchildren, underwent in-vitro fertility treatment so she could produce a male heir.

Her husband, Charan Singh Panwar, 77, mortgaged his land, sold his buffalos, spent his life savings and took out a credit card loan to finance the treatment.

“At last we have a son and heir,” he said. “We prayed to God, went to saints and visited religious places to pray for an heir."

“We kept no stone unturned and God has rewarded us. The treatment cost me a fortune but the birth of a son makes it all worthwhile. I can die a happy man and a proud father.”

In 2007, a 60-year-old New Jersey woman named Frieda Birnbaum gave birth to twins.
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Dr. Manny Alvarez, FOXNews.com's managing health editor, said there are numerous health risks to the women — and their babies — who decide to give birth late in life.

"This is an extremely problematic pregnancy," Alvarez said of Panwar. "The stress that is put on the heart, kidneys and liver put her life in danger. And the twin babies have the risk of not getting enough nutrients because the vascular system is so compromised on a 70-year-old womb."

that happens but crazy

Now imagine the couple (him 77 and her 70) getting divorced. He'll be paying child support until he's 96 years old!

whatever makes peole happy makes me happy