Woman, 67, becomes China’s oldest new mother as baby girl is ‘given by God’, reports say
- Doctors at hospital in Shandong province deliver 2.6kg baby Tianci by caesarean section, local newspapers report
- Mum Tian describes birth as painful, as husband Huang says he plans to live to 110
A 67-year-old woman from east China is reported to have become the country’s oldest new mother after giving birth to a baby girl on Friday, according to local media reports.
The woman, identified only her surname Tian, comes from Shandong province and had the child by caesarean section at the Zaozhuang Maternity and Child Health Hospital, Zaozhuang Express reported on Sunday.
The baby was delivered by two doctors – Wang Xietong and Liu Chengwen – the report said, though neither answered calls to confirm the birth.
A person who answered the telephone at the hospital confirmed the baby’s birth but did not elaborate.
If the claim is substantiated, Tian would be the oldest woman ever to give birth in China, overtaking the previous record held by a woman from Changchun, capital of east China’s Jilin province, who gave birth to a baby boy in 2016 at the age of 64.
