Great-grandmother has healthy baby boy
Published 9:00 pm Saturday, February 18, 2006
REDDING, Calif. – A 62-year-old woman gave birth Friday to a healthy 6-pound, 9-ounce baby boy, becoming one of the oldest women in the world to successfully bear a child.
Janise Wulf gave birth to her 12th child, the eldest of whom is 40. She is also a grandmother of 20 and a great-grandmother of three.
Family members said the delivery went smoothly despite earlier concerns about the mother’s health. Wulf, a diabetic, experienced swelling and elevated blood pressure earlier this week, prompting doctors to perform the Caesarean section a week early.
Wulf and her third husband, Scott, 48, named the boy Adam Charles Wulf. He follows just 31/2 years behind his older brother, Ian.
“I hate to raise one alone without a sibling,” said Wulf, who was impregnated both times through in vitro fertilization.
The oldest woman on record to give birth is 66-year-old Adriana Iliescu of Romania, who had a Caesarean section on Jan. 15, 2005.
The Guinness Book of Records also lists two 63-year-old women who have given birth: Rosanna Della Corte of Italy in 1994, and Acheli Keh of California in 1996. News reports, however, list Della Corte’s age as 62 when she gave birth.
