52-year-old woman becomes first to deliver twins at Kolkata hospital long after Menopause.

Sarbani Pal is the country's first woman to have successfully delivered twins at a post-menopausal 52 years of age.At a very young age,she married Sital Das about 35 years ago.Sital's sperm count was low and egg donation with intra cytoplasmic sperm injection was advised.Rohit Gutgutia IVF consultant at Genomee explained them the entire process.At 50-plus the blood vesselsbecome resistant the uterus loses its flexibility.Thus it was a difficult situation to take over said Chakraborty who oversaw the pregnancy till the delivery.All went well,but in the 32nd week,Sarbani developed pregnancy-induced hypertension and cholestate jaundice,so the doctors performed an emergency caesarean on Sarbani on April 29.The two babies developed slight respiratory distress in the first week,but theydid not need any ventilation.