A 65 year old German mother and grandmother of 13 children has set a world record after she gave birth to quadruplets bringning the total number of her progeny to 17.
Raunigk, a single mother, gave birth last week to three boys and one girl after a pregnancy of just under 26 weeks, the German broadcaster RTL reported.
The newborns — whose names are Neeta, Dries, Bence and Fjonn — were delivered by C-section and are being kept in incubators for premature babies, according to RTL.
“I myself find life with children great,” Raunigk said earlier this year. “You constantly have to live up to new challenges. And that probably also keeps you young.”
To become pregnant, she used in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment with donated eggs that were fertilized.
One doctor tried to persuade her to abort one or two of the fetuses, but she refused to consider it.
