70-Year-Old African Woman Gives Birth To Twins
Namukwaya the Babies’ Mother If you’re a woman in your forties or fifties and you’re losing hope of having babies, this African woman has rekindled your hope of fertility. Like the biblical Sarah, call it a miracle as this Ugandan woman defies what can be called scientific odds to give birth to twins at the age of 70. On Wednesday the 30th November, Safina Namukwaya of Uganda gave birth to twins at a medical facility in Kampala the country’s capital in what can be described as the miraculous child delivery of the century. Dr Edward Tamale Sali who supervised the delivery of the twins (a boy and a girl) describes it as “extraordinary achievement delivering twins to Africa’s oldest mother at 70” Namukwaya & Her Doctor Namukwaya, the mother of the babies says, “there’s no way to express my joy at this moment because at 70, when I’m considered weak, unable to get pregnant and deliver, or look after a baby, here is a miracle of the twins. Namukwaya had her first child 23 years ago a