A 62-year-old woman has given birth to a healthy 6lb 9oz baby boy, becoming one of the oldest women in the world to successfully bear a child.

A woman believed to be the world’s oldest mother has baptised her daughter, now almost five months old, the Romanian Bishop who performed the ceremony said today.

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.

Ethics campaigners today criticised a 66-year-old Romanian academic for becoming the world’s oldest woman to give birth.

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.