Jul 16, 2009 / 16:43 pm
A Spanish woman who became the world’s oldest mother after she lied about her age to obtain IVF treatment has died two years after she gave birth.
In 2007, one week before her 67th birthday, Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara gave premature birth by caesarean section to two sons, Christian and Pau, in a Barcelona hospital. They weighed 3.5 lbs each.
Without the knowledge of her family, she had traveled to California for IVF treatment at the Pacific Fertility Center. According to the Associated Press, the director and owner of the center, Dr. Vicken Sahakian, said she falsified her birth date on documents.
Dr. Sahakian had implanted Bousada with an embryo conceived with a younger woman’s eggs and donated sperm. Bousada also had to receive a three-week hormone treatment to “rejuvenate” her uterus, after being menopausal for 18 years.