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Concetta Ditessa, pregnant at 62

Catherine McDiarmid-Watt | Monday, October 21, 2019 | 0 comments

April 24, 1992 - ROME — A 62-year-old woman has become pregnant after a test-tube conception, her doctor said Thursday.

She apparently would be the oldest person to give birth if she delivers successfully.

Concetta Ditessa, a housewife from a Calabrian village in southern Italy, is due to give birth to a boy in August.

She has had no complications, Dr. Raffaele Magli said in a telephone interview from his office in Naples.

This Pregnancy Over 40 story was found on LAtimes.com
Read more: 62-Year-Old Could Be Oldest to Give Birth
Originally posted on April 24, 1992
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About Catherine: I am mom to three grown sons, two grandchildren and two rescue dogs. After years of raising my boys as a single mom, I remarried a wonderful man who had never had a child of his own. Unexpectedly, I found myself pregnant at 49!
Sadly we lost our precious baby at 8 weeks, and decided to try again. Five more losses, turned down for donor egg, foster care and adoption due to my age and losses - we have accepted there will be no more babies in our house.

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