A woman gives birth to twins at the age of 60

A Chinese woman gave birth to twin girls at the age of 60 following IVF treatment after her only child died, making her possibly the oldest person in the country to give birth, Fox News reports.

Worldwide, many countries and clinics impose limits on IVF treatment which is known to become less effective with age, and amid concerns for the resulting children's welfare.

Sheng Hailin, now 63, lost her first daughter, then in her late twenties, in an accidental gas poisoning case in 2009, the China Daily said.

"To survive and free myself of the loneliness, I decided to have another child in my old age," she was quoted by the newspaper as saying.

She gave birth to Zhizhi, who weighed 1.85kg, and Huihui, 1.45kg, on May 25, 2010 at the No. 105 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army, said the paper.

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