Lugo woman, 62, expecting her third child
Friday, September 16, 2016 @ 5:59 PM
A WOMAN from Galicia is eight months' pregnant with her third child at the age of 62 following successful IVF treatment, and says she is 'bursting with happiness' at becoming a mum again.
Qualified doctor Lina Álvarez, from Lugo, is no stranger to later-life pregnancy – her second child, Samuel, 10, was conceived via IVF and born when she was 52 – says she feels better in mind and body and physical and mental health now she is expecting again than before she conceived her little girl, who will be born in October.
The 'excitement, hormone changes and happiness at becoming a mother again' means she is in the peak of health, although the baby will be born by programmed Caesarian section due to her own age.
This means she will have had two biological children after going through the menopause at age 42.
Lina considers her third pregnancy as 'compensation' for the tough times she has suffered in her adult life, including living in poverty due to her salary being embargoed through legal battles, and her first child, who is now 27, suffering cerebral palsy and needing constant care.
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