A woman from New Hampshire that She lost her 13-year-old daughter to a brain tumor in 2016 now she gave birth to a son, at age 57. Is about Barbara Higgins, who also had a brain tumor of her own while trying to get pregnant and had it removed.
Higgins and her husband, Kenny Banzhoff, of Concord, have mourned their late daughter Molly. In recent years, the couple, who also have an older daughter, have considered having another child. They found an IVF clinic in Boston that worked with them.
Higgins gave birth to a healthy boy named Jack on Saturday. He weighed 5 pounds and 13 ounces. “Yes, I am scared and anxious, but I am so excited”, Higgins told the Concord Monitor for a story published Friday.
Higgins, an avid runner who has been a track and field coach in high school, said she did weight training until the day she went into labor. In addition to Higgins’ struggles with his brain tumor, Banzhoff, 65, had been living with kidney disease and underwent a transplant.
According to Guinness World Records, the oldest woman to give birth was María del Carmen Bousada Lara, 66, who had twins in Spain in 2006.
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