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Not even menopause
could stop this woman
January 2, 2004
Express News Service
Mumbai, January 2:
At 50, a decade
after her biological clock had slowed to a crawl and 14
years after her marriage, motherhood is smiling on this
ecstatic woman.
Her first child, a healthy baby boy, was delivered at
the Siddhi Infertility Centre and Maternity Hospital,
Borivali (West) by Caesarean section.
She didn’t want to reveal her name, but said the baby
is as much a triumph of science as of nature: Because
menopause set in 10 years ago. Plus she had certain
‘disturbing bands and a swelling’ on one side of her
uterus.
What did it? A combination of three months of Hormone
Replacement Therapy to overcome 10 years of menopause,
egg donation and in-vitro fertilisation.
She delivered premature twins four years ago, but
they expired a couple of days later. ‘‘This boy is
healthy, so my nightmare is over,’’ said the coy mother.
Her gynaecologists, Dr Kaustubh Kulkarni and his wife
Dr Sharda Kulkarni, said chances of a woman above 40
years successfully delivering a test-tube baby in the
first attempt is just 10 per cent. ‘‘This was a rare
success,’’ said Dr Sharda Kulkarni.
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