TOASTS – A woman originally from Ostuni became a mother for the first time at the age of 58, who yesterday gave birth to a baby girl in the ‘Perrino’ hospital in Brindisi. Given the age of the mother, the event was celebrated in the wards of the obstetrics and gynecology ward. “The woman and the baby are in good condition,” confirmed the head of the department Paolo Amorusowhich followed the entire period of pregnancy obtained with artificial insemination.
A not new experience in the same health facility in the Messapian capital, where two years ago she gave birth to a 56-year-old woman. “That of the last few hours is an even more unique event – it continues – if we think that it is a 58-year-old patient. And she went really well”. We managed – he continues – to carry on this pregnancy almost until the ninth month of pregnancy in the best possible way “.
The baby, who her parents called Ilaria, weighs just over 2.3 kilograms. “We are a second level ward, so used to having even smaller children, this newborn is absolutely in agreement – concludes the head physician of ‘Perrino – with the gestational period”. The woman and the little girl will be able to return home in the next few days, where the 63-year-old new father will be waiting for them.