READY FOR 4 MORE
65- year- old mom pregnant with quads
At age 65, Annegret Raunigk should be concentrating on s spoiling her g grandkids. In Instead, the moth mother of 13 is pregnant nant again— with four more on the way. ” Certainly, that was a shock for me,” Ra Raunigk said after her doctorsdoctor in Berlin, Germany many delivereddeliv the news.
Raunigk made headlines 10 years agoa as well, when she gave birth to her 13th child, daughterda Lelia, at the age o of 55.
But theth mom decided to try for yet another baby afteraft the youngest girl expressedexpre a desire for a little brother or sister.
” At first, I only wanted one child,” Raunigk told the newspaper Bild. “After the doctor discovered there were four, I had to give it some thought.”
But Raunigk, who teaches Russian and English, said she never considered it an option to reduce the number of embryos.
Her pregnancy follows several attempts at artificial insemination abroad in the last 18 months, according to a TV station.
So far, there have been no major complications, and if everything goes well, the babies will be born sometime this summer, making Raunigk the world’s oldest mother of quadruplets.
“I’m not actually afraid,” Raunigk. “I simply assume I’ll remain healthy and fit. In matters of organization I have enough experience. That’s not new for me.”
Raunigk was artificially inseminated, using both donated sperm and eggs, reports say.
Her doctors said everything is going well. The biggest risk for the babies is being born prematurely, and doctors are doing all they can to prevent that.
The mother to be is defiant of her critics.
“How does one have to be at 65?” Raunigk said. “One must apparently always fit some clichés, which I find rather tiring. I think, one must decide that for oneself.”
Raunigk has certainly been down this road before.
“Not all were planned,” she said of her children by a variety of fathers. “But then things happen. I’m not a planner but rather spontaneous. And children keep me young.”