Some couples agree early on how many children they’d like but many mums anguish over whether to have another. How do you know when you have enough children, asks Andrea Mara.

Premature quadruplets born to a 65-year-old German woman are still in intensive care, doctors say, but have been gaining a little weight and are being given their mother’s milk through feeding tubes.

A 65-year-old teacher from Berlin has given birth to quadruplets after a pregnancy widely criticised by medical professionals because of her age, RTL television said.

A 65-year-old German mother-of-13 is getting ready to give birth again – this time to quadruplets.