A 72-year-old woman from Amritsar, India is celebrating the of her first child. Daljinder Kaur and her husband Mohinder Singh Gill, 79, posed for for the Indian last week, proudly holding their baby boy Arman. The couple had been trying to have a baby for , without . They had been under a lot of during that time to start a family. While most people would have accepted their and resigned themselves to a life without children, Daljinder and Mohinder persisted in their dream for a child. Daljinder started attending the National Fertility and Test Tube Baby Centre for treatment in 2013 and successfully became last year.
Specialists at the fertility clinic had reservations about offering Daljinder because of her age. Dr Anurag Bishnoi told reporters: "I first tried to avoid the because she was very weak, but then her medical reports were normal and she was to conceive." He added: "Our track handling IVF in older women has been good, but not everyone is fit to conceive. In her case, she looked visibly too, so I had to refer her to a cardiologist to get clearance for the procedure and for a battery of other tests." Meanwhile, Daljinder is over the about becoming a mother. She said: "I can live now. My life is complete." She is now the woman ever to give birth.