[DiamondSmiles]

http://www.examiner.com/article/60-t...-via-ivf-china

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examiner.com
December 25, 2013

The, “60 twins,” news report coming from China's state media on Tuesday consists of two simple words but the story behind the, “60 twins,” news title is in fact a story not just about parents who lost their only daughter to carbon monoxide poisoning but it is the story of a whole country. When it comes to children, “China has long maintained a one-child policy,” reported Channel News Asia on December 24, 2013.

In an almost unprecedented and extremely unusual case, China allowed the 60 year old woman to have her twins via IVF treatment. For more than 30 years, China’s often brutally family planning law restricts parents from having more than one child. Some exceptions include families living in the country.

In 2009, 60 year old Sheng Hailin and her husband lost their much beloved 29 year old daughter due to accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. "To survive and free myself of the loneliness, I decided to have another child in my old age," she told the China Daily.

After having lost their only child, a military hospital in the eastern city of Hefei agreed to give Sheng Hailin in vitro fertilisation (IVF) therapy, and on May 25, 2010, the then 60 year old Chinese woman gave birth to the twins. “Zhizhi weighed 1.85 kilogrammes (4.1 pounds), and Huihui, 1.45 kilogrammes.”

Even though the twins were born to a 60 year old woman in 2010, the state media reported it just on Tuesday at a time when China’s top legislative committee is planning to formalize a wider exception to the one-child limit.

For Sheng Hailin and her husband, whether being allowed to have twins at the age of 60 in China was politically motivated or not is of lesser importance. The twins are three years old now, Sheng Hailin is 63, and all that matters to them is that they are a family. As she told the China Daily, "for the baby girls, I have given out all I have.”

[blancadon]

She'll be granners to all her kid's school friends.

[DiamondSmiles]

Originally Posted by blancadon ↗

She'll be granners to all her kid's school friends.

I don't think it's fair to the children to have them that late in life.

I can see her reasoning, but, still...

[Shakey]

[Kelseecat65]

I thought having my son at 36 was pushing it.
I agree Diamondsmiles, not fair to those kids at all.

[Djurplagare]

Glad they`re okay, not deformed or retarded.

[Sharon]

A mum at 60

She'll not have much time with the children as she starts to age

[pissypantsandpuke]

It's a heartwarming story in theory, and those little girls are adorable. But no one will be so happy about it in 10 years or so when they're orphaned :/ :(