Berlin woman set to become world’s oldest mother of quadruplets

YEREVAN, APRIL 13, ARMENPRESS. Annegret Raunigk, 65, who already has 13 children and seven grandchildren, became pregnant after several attempts at fertility treatment.

As reports “Armenpress” citing The Guardian, A 65-year-old Berlin woman who has 13 children is pregnant with quadruplets, German media have reported.

Annegret Raunigk’s pregnancy follows several attempts abroad at artificial insemination over the last year and a half, broadcaster RTL said.

Raunigk, a Russian and English teacher who has seven grandchildren, decided to try to have another child because her youngest daughter, who is nine, wanted a little brother or sister, RTL said on itswebsite.

The TV channel will broadcast an interview with the expectant mother, on Monday evening. It said the pregnancy had so far been without any major complications and that the babies are due in the summer. If all goes well, Raunigk will be the world’s oldest mother of quadruplets.

Bild am Sonntag newspaper quoted Raunigk as saying the news of the pregnancy had initially come as a shock. “After the doctor discovered there were four, I had to give it some thought to begin with,” she said, adding that she had not considered it an option to reduce the number of embryos.

Asked about the moral implications, RTL quoted her as saying: “I think one must decide that for oneself.”

Bild reported on Raunigk 10 years ago when she gave birth to her 13th child, quoting her at the time as saying she had originally envisaged having only one.