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65-year-old German mother of 13 is now pregnant with quadruplets

Published  April 15, 2015 8:05pm PDT
Associated Press



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

Bild newspaper reported Monday that Annegret Raunigk, a Berlin schoolteacher who is due soon to retire, is expected to give birth to the four babies in two months.

She already has children ranging in age from 9 to 44, from five fathers. This time, Bild reports that donated eggs were fertilized and implanted at a clinic outside Germany.

Raunigk says she decided to become pregnant again because her 9-year-old daughter wanted a younger sibling.

Medical professionals have criticized her decision, but Raunigk says she is not worried.

She is quoted as saying: "They can see it how they want to, and I'll see it the way I think is right."

“The 65-year-old body is definitely not designed to carry a pregnancy, not of one child and certainly not of quadruplets,” Holger Stephan, head of obstetrics at the University of Leipzig, told the German DPA news agency.