Worlds oldest mum dies, twins orphaned

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Worlds oldest mum dies, twins orphaned

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16 July,2009 07:08 pm

A Spanish woman who gave birth to twins when she was 67 has died, two-and-a-half years after becoming the worlds oldest mother.Carmen Bousada, who lied about her age to receive donor eggs and sperm in the US, died at 69 after suffering from cancer - leaving her two young boys parentless. Her brother told Spanish newspaper El Periodico de Catalunya her illness was very hard, she was in a really bad state recently. It was not clear who would now raise Ms Bousadas sons, Cristian and Pau. Ms Bousada gave birth on December 26, 2006, at a hospital in Barcelona. She later admitted she had filled out forms claiming she was 55, in order to get around the centres age limit for single women. The arrival of her healthy babies made her the oldest woman known to have given birth. An Indian woman, Omkari Panwar, claimed to be 70 years old when she gave birth to twins last year, but she has no birth certificate to prove her age.