Obstetrics & gynaecology

Quadruplets born to 65-year-old mom still in critical phase

Doctors say the week-old quadruplets born prematurely to 65-year-old Annegret Raunigk in Berlin are still in intensive care, but have been gaining a little weight and are being given their mother's milk through feeding tubes.

Obstetrics & gynaecology

German woman, 65, gives birth to quadruplets

A 65-year-old teacher from Berlin has given birth to quadruplets after a pregnancy that was widely criticized by medical professionals because of her age, RTL television said Saturday.