The 66-year-old mother, believed to be the oldest woman to give birth, dismissed concerns that she is too old to rear the child and said today that the baby was her mission in life.

INFERTILITY experts have said it is “madness” for a 66-year-old woman to be allowed to give birth and that nobody over the age of 45 would be allowed receive egg donations in this country.

A 66-YEAR-OLD Romanian woman yesterday became the world’s oldest recorded mother after giving birth to a baby girl.

A 67-year-old Romanian woman gave birth today to a baby girl, hospital officials said. The child’s twin sister was stillborn, they said.