Elias weighs 3,5 kg, he is 50 cm. Is healthy. His mother is Italian. In her youth, she had a miscarriage four times, but she and her husband still dreamed of having a baby. Now Maria Rosaria has undergone hormone treatment, after which she became pregnant, and happily delivered her. Doctors emphasize that it was not artificial insemination.
Maria Rosaria and her husband live in the south of Italy, near the town of Caserta. Elias is their first child. The boy was born on Tuesday, September 20, 2016 in the hospital of Castel Volturno.
The news of this extraordinary birth spread around the Italian media. Journalists cite doctors who assure that the pregnancy was normal, so much so that the future mother was physically active in the seventh month.
The baby was born in the 34th week of pregnancy as a result of a cesarean section, which turned out to be necessary because the boy was growing rapidly, and the doctors were afraid of how a woman in her sixties would endure the first childbirth. They emphasize that everything went smoothly and that the condition of the newborn was perfect. – Everything ended well, we managed to have this exceptional childbirth. The medical team is beaming with happiness, said the head of the gynecology and obstetrics department, Stefano Palmieri. Realizing that this news would electrify all women who had gone through the menopause and tried to come to terms with the thought that it was too late for motherhood for them, Dr. Palmieri remarked: they will end the same. These are extremely rare cases, which entail enormous risks for both mother and child ”. But the Corriere del Mezzogiorno newspaper reports that in the same clinic in Castel Volturno last year, children were already born to women aged 54 and 57.