Severino Antinori, a fertility doctor treated 63-year-old Patricia Rashbrook by implanting one fertilised donor egg in her womb. Now she is seven months pregnant and set to become the oldest mother in Britain. Dr Antinori says that age 62 or 63 was the upper limit for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) in healthy women.
Earlier, he only considered the couples with 20 years of life left for fertility treatment. Now, he argues that older people can be better parents too.
Dr Antinori had treated a post menopausal woman to become pregnant with donors egg and hormones in 1994. He has a dream too — to become the first doctor to make a cloned human birth possible.
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