65 Year-old German Woman with 13 children is Pregnant with Quadruplets
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Anngret Raunigk, a 65-year-old English and Russian teacher from Berlin, already has 13 children by five different fathers. After undergoing fertility treatment, Anngret is now in her 21st week of pregnancy. She expected a baby in summer but remembers clearly watching the ultrasound screen, where four beating hearts were clearly visible.
“Of course it was a shock for me,” she told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper. “After the doctor established that it was four, I had to think about it at first ... whether to give the children to foster parents or adoption or reduce them.”
Reducing them - aborting one or more of the foetuses - would, doctors said, increase the survival rate of the others.
But the teacher wouldn’t hear of it and has decided to proceed with the quadruplet pregnancy, shadowed by Germany’s largest tabloid Bild and its television equivalent, RTL.
It’s a decade since Anngret had her last baby at 55, which she said happened naturally. Now Leila is nine years old, her mother said, and dearly wanted more brothers and sisters to play with.
And so, 18 months ago, she decided for fertility treatment abroad using donor eggs and sperm. The babies are due in the summer.
“I’m not afraid,” she said, “I simply assume that I will remain fit and healthy.”
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