Brindisi, 7 June 2022 – Her name is Ilaria, she weighs 2.3 kg and is fine. Her birth is news because the mamma ha 58 years old and it was her first pregnancy. The story comes fromPerrino hospital from Toasts, where today the obstetrics and gynecology department celebrated a somewhat special birth. A woman from Ostuni gave birth to her first daughter at the age of 58. “She and the baby are in good condition”, confirmed the head of the department Paolo Amoruso, who followed the entire pregnancy period.
It is not the first time that the Perrino hosts an aging primipara: two years ago she gave birth to a 56 year old here. But this time it is an event “even more unique if we think that it is a 58-year-old patient”. Fortunately “everything went really well. We were able – she continues – to carry on this pregnancy almost up to the ninth month of pregnancy in the best possible way”.
Little Ilaria, conceived withartificial inseminationshe is in shape, even if she weighs just 2.3 kg: “We are a second level ward, so used to having even smaller children, this newborn is absolutely in accordance with the gestational age”.
The woman and the little girl will be able to return home in the next few days, where the 63 year old new dad.