German mother of 13 pregnant with quadruplets at age 65

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German mother of 13 pregnant with quadruplets at age 65

BERLIN (AP) — A 65-year-old German mother of 13 is getting ready to give birth again — this time to quadruplets.

Annegret Raunigk, a Berlin schoolteacher who is due soon to retire, is expected to give birth to the four babies within the next two months, Bild newspaper and RTL television reported.

She already has children ranging in age from 9 to 44, from five fathers. Raunigk said she decided to become pregnant again because her 9-year-old daughter wanted a younger sibling.

Her decision was met with widespread criticism by medical professionals as a risk both to her and the unborn babies.

"Any pregnancy of a woman over age 45 has to be considered a high-risk pregnancy; over 60 this is naturally extreme," Dr. Holger Stepan, head of obstetrics at the University of Leipzig, told the dpa news agency.

"The 65-year-old body is definitely not designed to carry a pregnancy, not of one child and certainly not of quadruplets," he said.

Raunigk told Bild that donated eggs were fertilized and implanted at a clinic outside Germany, which was successful only after multiple attempts.

She defended her decision: "How does one have to behave at 65?"

"They can see it how they want to," she said, "and I'll see it the way I think is right."


-- (c) Associated Press 2015-04-14

[ggt]

OMG...are you kidding me? There are no words adequate to describe my lack of compassion for someone so our of touch with reality...she will not likely live to see them graduate from HS...

[Dr Robert]

Stop your whining and moralising.

Show me one person grown to happy adulthood who is not be grateful for the blessing of life, despite the age of their mother?

I say go for it lady and ignore the misinformed rants of the self righteous-all life is precious.

[Credo]

I have a feeling that it is the Social Welfare system that is going to get stuck taking care of these kids.

Her 9 year old daughter wanted a sibling? Get her a puppy, for God's sake.

[jerojero]

What a frig'n idiot! Need more be said?

[SOTIRIOS]

...so much for 'racial stereotyping' and all the rest....

...if it's not ignorance.....then egotism and selfishness.....???

[enufsaid]

My 9 year old wanted a sibling so I got him a puppy, I was 38 & had 2 children, I wish now at 60 I had given him more siblings. I wish I'd frozen my eggs, definetly wouldn't have donated eggs you don't know what genetics you are producing.

[wabothai]

Guinness book of records.

[JohnC]

So who takes care of theses kids when she passes on? Probably in the next ten years? Very selfish, no thoughts for the kids future.

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Here she is with her husband....

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[cruisemonkey]

...definetly wouldn't have donated eggs you don't know what genetics you are producing.

They could be Thai genes.

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...definetly wouldn't have donated eggs you don't know what genetics you are producing.

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Thai genes are pirated copies of Chinese genes.

[Chris Lawrence]

'She defended her decision: "How does one have to behave at 65?"'

Could have kept her legs closed? and shut the backdoor?

[Prbkk]

A good mother, educated , employed, responsible. Her body, her life, who's to criticise.? Good luck to her and the kids.

[thaibeachlovers]

A good mother, educated , employed, responsible. Her body, her life, who's to criticise.? Good luck to her and the kids.

As long as she doesn't get ONE CENT from the taxpayer I might agree with you. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen.

[Lokie]

Irresponsible and selfish.

[northernphil]

13 children and 4 more on the way ! Her whatsaname must be like a wizards sleeve.

[cloudhopper]

I'm just glad it's not a USA story...