December 04, 2007	Tuesday	Ziqa'ad 23, 1428

MUNICH: A German woman aged 64 has given birth to a healthy baby girl, a national record and her first child after years of unfruitful attempts and false pregnancies, a report said on Sunday.

“Mother and child are doing well,” said doctor Elias Karam at the Aschaffenburg clinic in southern Bavaria, quoted by the Internet site of the Der Spiegel weekly.

The baby was born on Thursday by caesarian section and weighed two kilograms, the report said. While the woman became the oldest German to given birth, it was far from a world record.

At the end of 2006, a Spanish woman of 67 gave birth to twins, pipping the record made the year before by another twin-bearer, this time a 66-year-old Romanian.

The German birth came thanks to the donation of ovules by a 25-year-old donor but used the sperm of her husband, who is also aged 64, Spiegel Online reported. The ovule operation happened abroad because it is banned in Germany, the report said.

“This woman came to me because she needed my help. As a doctor, I gave it without question,” said Karam.—AFP