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Sunday, January 23, 2005The 66-year-old Romanian who last week became the world's oldest known woman to deliver a baby says two abortions in her 20s left her with a life of regret and a yearning for motherhood. Adriana Iliescu, a professor of literature here at Romania's largest private university, the Hyperion, gave birth to daughter Eliza Maria after undergoing fertility treatment. Mrs. Iliescu, speaking from her bed at Panait Sarbu Hospital, called Eliza Maria a "gift from God." She had become pregnant twice in her early 20s during a failed four-year marriage, she said. She aborted both pregnancies, she said, because that was a routine method of birth control at the time in Romania under communist rule. She spent most of the rest of her life wishing that she had a child, Mrs. Iliescu said. "If there is anything I regret, it is those terminations, not having a baby now," she said. ...Mrs. Iliescu gave birth Jan. 16, seven weeks early, after undergoing in-vitro fertilization, for which she paid about $3,900. She originally was carrying triplets, but one died at 10 weeks and another earlier this month. Her doctors decided to induce the delivery of her remaining child. People are clucking at the presumed irresponsiblility of having a child so late in life. Motherhood is taxing, no doubt about it, and few are those who can shoulder the burden in the twilight years. But, there are plenty of grandmothers who have taken on the task of raising their grandchildren, even from infancy, and no one clucks at them. Instead, they get only praise. Mrs. Iliescu has her work cut out for her, but it's not an impossible one. And it sounds as if her daughter will be loved and appreciated at least. posted by Sydney on 1/23/2005 10:09:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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