A 66-year-old woman, living in India, gave birth to triplets (two boys and a girl) after 44 years of marriage without children, possibly setting the record for the oldest woman in the world to give birth to triplets.

Bts. According to the physicians, Bhateri Devi is getting urgent care after undergoing artificial insemination at the National Insemination Center in Hisar, Haryana, where she became pregnant. Three of her infants were delivered with low birth weights, weighing only 1.2 kg, 1.1 kg, and 800 g.

Dr Anurag Bishnoi, who supervised Mrs Devi’s treatment, said: ‘According to the birth certificate issued by a government hospital in Rohtak district, Bhateri Devi was born on May 21, 1944, in Madina village of Rohtak.

Bts.Anurag Bishnoi added Bhateri Devi successfully conceived after three attempts at artificial insemination. In the first two, each cycle resulted in the implantation of just two embryos. On the third try, though, three embryos were placed in the uterus, and the mother conceived.

For her husband, 64-year-old Deva Singh, this is boundless joy because of the happiness of being a father at the age of nearly seventy. “Bhateri fulfilled my dream of having children and giving my family an heir. Bhateri was my first wife and after she couldn’t have children, I took a second wife but again I didn’t have children with my later wife,” he said. “I am very happy and will give my children a full and prosperous life in the future.