According to reports from Western press agencies, Bulgaria is debating a cap on the age for motherhood in Bulgaria after a 62-year-old woman gave birth to IVF twins. The woman, psychiatrist Krasimira Dimitrova, gave birth to the twins prematurely by caesarean section. They have been said to be healthy despite weighing in at less than a kilogram each at birth.

Ms Dimitrova’s pregnancy was the result of embryo transfer, and she was originally impregnated with three embryos. However, during the pregnancy, doctors decided to remove one. She told 24 Hours that she resorted to IVF after becoming frustrated with adoption agencies, who refused to allow her to adopt because of her age. 'Age was not an obstacle for me... I so much wanted to have children,' she told the newspaper in an interview earlier this month.

Her obstetrician, Georgy Hubchev, told the government news agency BTA that this case was only the second in the world where IVF twins had been born to a woman over 60. ~ Straits Times, May 12