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A 65-year-old Kashmiri woman has given birth to a healthy baby girl and the 80-year-old father has thanked Allah for the ‘precious gift’. The unnamed mother now claims to have become the oldest mother in the world.

She gave birth to her daughter on Boxing day at a hospital in Poonch district of Jammu & Kashmir. According to a Daily Mail report, the couple already has a 10-year old son.

The woman was admitted to the district hospital of Poonch on Wednesday morning after she complained of labour pains. Later that afternoon, she gave birth to her second child.

The 80-year-old father, Hakim Din, thanked Allah and appealed to the government that his family will need help in feeding and raising the child.

“Usually menopause sets in on an average at the age of 47 years in India. Once it sets in, there is no possibility (of giving birth). But this is a rare one,” a maternity specialist from Kashmir told reporters.

Women who give birth after the age of 50 do so through IVF procedures. If the mother’s claims are true, she will officially become the oldest mother in the world to have conceived a baby naturally.

The current oldest mother in the world is Spain’s Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara. She gave birth to twins at the age of 66 via IVF treatment