65-Year Old Mother of 13: Pregnant with Quadruplets!

According Germany's Bild newspaper, this 65-year old is over five months into a pregnancy that will yield her four children, a fact that would be stunning enough on its own... until one considers:
Raunigk is already the mother of 13 children!!!


Raunigk is also a grandmother of seven kids and gave birth at age 55 to her now-youngest daughter.
Thus far, the expecting mother of quadruplets is progressing at a normal and healthy rate.

"Any pregnancy of a woman over age 45 has to be considered a high-risk pregnancy; over 60, this is naturally extreme," Dr. Holger Stepan, head of obstetrics at the University of Leipzig said, tells to The Associated Press.

Stepan adds that the 65-year-old body is definitely not designed to carry a pregnancy, not of one child and certainly not of quadruplets," but Raunigk is defiant:

"How does one have to be at 65? One must apparently always fit some cliches, which I find rather tiring. I think, one must decide that for oneself," she told a German publication.

AFP reports that Raunigk is due this summer, which will reportedly make her the oldest mother to ever give birth to quadruplets.

Let's hope everyone comes out of it happy and healthy.