印度一74歲女子生下雙胞胎

A 74-year-old woman has given birth to twin girls in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, reviving several controversies around geriatric pregnancies.

印度南部安得拉邦的一名74歲的女子生下一對雙胞胎女孩，這再次引發了有關老年懷孕的爭議。

The doctor who delivered the babies, Sankkayala Uma Shankar, told The Washington Post on Friday that the mother, Mangayamma Yaramati, provided a birth certificate showing that she is 74, though some news outlets have reported that she is 73.

週五爲那名女子接生的醫生珊卡亞拉·烏瑪·尚卡爾告訴《華盛頓郵報》，那位母親曼戈雅瑪·雅拉瑪蒂提供的出生證明表明她已經74歲了，不過有新聞報道她73歲。

Shankar, an IVF specialist, delivered the twins via Caesarean section and told The Post that the mother and the babies are doing well.

體外受精專家尚卡爾通過剖腹產接生了這對雙胞胎，她告訴《華盛頓郵報》，這位母親和兩個孩子都很好。

Yaramati and her 82-year-old husband, Sitarama Rajarao, said they had wanted children for years, and that they had been stigmatized in their village for being childless, BBC reported.

據英國廣播公司報道，雅拉瑪蒂和她82歲的丈夫斯塔拉瑪·拉賈羅表示，他們多年來一直想要孩子，而且他們在村子裏因爲沒有孩子而被侮蔑。

"We tried many times and saw numerous doctors," she said. "So this is the happiest time of my life."

“我們試了很多次，而且請很多醫生診斷過，”她說。“因此這是我一生中最幸福的時刻。”

"The [pregnancy] was smooth. There were no complications," Shankar told The Post. "She only had respiratory issues, but that was taken care of."

“‘懷孕’很順利，也沒有併發症，”尚卡爾告訴《華盛頓郵報》。“她只是呼吸系統有問題，但這個問題已經解決了。”

The twins were conceived through in vitro fertilization. Because Yaramati had experienced menopause, a donor's egg was fertilized with Rajarao's sperm before it was implanted in the new mother, doctors told the Hindustan Times.

這對雙胞胎是通過體外受精懷上的。醫生告訴《印度斯坦時報》，因爲雅拉瑪蒂已經絕經，所以一位捐獻者的卵子與拉賈羅的精子受精後被植入這位新媽媽的體內。

Shannon Clark, a professor of maternal and fetal medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, said Yaramati's delivery is atypical but not surprising given the existing technology around assisted reproduction.

德克薩斯大學加爾文斯敦醫學分部的母嬰醫學教授莎瓏·克拉克表示，雅拉瑪蒂的分娩不具代表性，但考慮到有關輔助生育的現有技術，這不足爲奇。

A woman's eggs deteriorate in quality and quantity over time, but her uterus "is not subject to the same age constraints," Clark explained. By turning to egg donors, as Yaramati did, women are able to carry babies at an advanced age.

隨着時間的推移，女性卵子的質量和數量都會下降，但她的子宮“不受年齡的限制，”克拉克解釋道。像雅拉瑪蒂一樣向卵子捐贈者求助，高齡女性也能懷孕。