Somebody's Been Wishing on My Star!

As I crawl back into the land of the living after a nasty cold, I came across this unbelieveable news story about a 70-year-old woman who gave birth on November 28, 2008.

Here is the story:

Rao Devi, 70, holds her daughter Monday at the Hisar fertility clinic in India. She gave birth to her first child on Nov. 28 after undergoing in vitro fertilization. She said she and her husband had longed for a child during 50 years of marriage.

"We longed for a child all these years and now we are very happy to have one in the twilight years of our life," she said, according to the Telegraph.

The newspaper quoted Dr. Anurag Bishnoi of the Hisar fertility center in Haryana state as saying that Devi and her 72-year-old husband, Bala Ram, came to the facility for treatment. "Both the mother and child are in good health," Bishnoi said.

The doctor did not disclose whose egg or sperm was used in the procedure.

The Telegraph said Devi and her husband had been married 50 years. After 10 years of childless marriage, he wed his wife's sister, but there were no children from that union, it said.

The new father said he wasn't worried about what would happen to the baby if he and his wife died before she grows up.

"The upbringing of the child is not a problem. We have a joint family as is common in rural Haryana," he said.

Previously, the world's oldest mother was believed to be a Spanish woman. Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara gave birth to twins in December 2006, days before her 67th birthday. She allegedly admitted that she lied about her age in order to receive fertility treatment from a U.S. clinic.

So, this just amazes me. And makes me wonder why it's so hard for me to get pregnant! I can't wait for 2008 to be over. What a year. 8 months of fertility treatments, shots, ultrasounds, blood work, and, of course, BILLS for it all, then a miscarriage, not to mention some health issues, various sicknesses, and some mental health crashes, this year is one for the books.

I know that turning the calendar to a new year really doesn't matter, but it's one change that I'm going to embrace with HOPE!