Cosenza becomes a mother at 63 thanks to an egg donation

Mother of little Emanuele at 63 years old. It is the happy event that took place yesterday in the Sacro Cuore iGreco Ospedali Riuniti operational headquarters in Cosenza and represents the first case in Calabria.

The news was given by the manager Giancarlo Greco, complimenting, it is written in a note, “with the medical team led by gynecologist and director of the maternal and child area department Raffaele Misasi for the important result destined to offer an important contribution in the field of the scientific literature referring to medically assisted procreation “.

The new mother had turned to a Center for heterologous fertilization through egg donation, a technique that allows a woman to be a mother regardless of age, which has been possible in Italy since April 2014.

«When we talk about heterologous fertilization – it is written in the note – we think above all of the donation of spermatozoa. But the donation can also be made by women, which means that women can receive an oocyte from another younger woman and fertilize it with the partner’s sperm, creating an embryo which is then implanted in the woman’s uterus “.

The exceptionality of the event recorded by iGreco Ospedali Riuniti, the note continues, “lies in the fact that the hand of the mother’s age has been moved further with respect to the Italian guidelines that impose a ceiling of 43 years for assisted fertilization and one of 50 years for the heterologous, coinciding with the menopause. The birth that took place yesterday at the Sacred Heart will not remain isolated, on the contrary it suggests that there will be more and more elderly and even single mothers in the future ».

Mom and son are fine. Of 2 kilos and 400 grams, the baby was born by caesarean section performed under epidural anesthesia. Pregnancy, according to the clinic, had a physiological course with pharmacological support in the first months of gestation up to full placental function. Periodic checks by her gynecologist Misasi and the good health of the woman meant that the pregnancy could reach its natural term, allowing the birth of Emanuele in the Sacro Cuore – iGreco Ospedali Riuniti headquarters in Cosenza.