"A 70-year-old Indian woman has become the world's oldest mother giving birth to twins.
"If I am the world's oldest mother it means nothing to me," Omkari Panwar said after the arrival of the babies, a boy and girl born a month premature and weighing just two pounds each. "I just want to see my new babies and care for them while I am still able."
The babies’ father, who will be sharing in the sleepless nights, is 77 years old retired farmer Charan Singh Panwar, who sold off his buffalo, and burned through his life savings just to pay for the invitro fertilization treatments that got enabled his wife to become pregnant.
The desperate measures were a gambit to produce a son for the couple; an heir to their modest farm holdings.
"We prayed to God, went to saints and visited religious places to pray for an heir," he said. "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,"after doctors said it was likely that both babies were strong enough to survive.-DAILY NEWS STAFF"
...They needed an heir, but what if you die before your heir makes it in to pre-school. I understand that I do not know the culture, but I do know what it is like for my parent to die early in my life. I can't help feeling like this was a selfish act from two desparate people. I hope that they put in their will for someone to take care of the child when they die. I feel kinda sad for the children honestly.
Maybe I am wrong?
What do you think?
