The woman had also lost a daughter to a brain tumor in 2016
By: Redacción
Barbara Higgins lost her 13-year-old daughter to a tumor cerebral in 2016, she has now given birth at 57 years old.
As Barbara and her husband, Kenny Banzhoff, 65, mourned the death of their daughter, she also presented a tumor cerebral, which they removed.
The woman of New Hampshire and her husband have another older daughter and planned to have another child, so they went to an IVF clinic in Boston.
Last Saturday, Higgins gave birth to a little boy they named Jack, who was born healthy and weighing 5 pounds 3 ounces.
“Yes, I am scared and anxious, but I am very excited,” Higgins said.
Barbara, who is a high school track and field coach, said she did weight training until the day she went into labor.
In addition to the struggles with his tumor cerebral, her husband had been living with kidney disease and had undergone a transplant.
According to the Guinness Record, the oldest woman to give birth was the Spanish Carmen Bousada Lara, who in 2006 had twins.
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