The couple used IVF treatment with donor eggs to get pregnant.

An Indian couple in their 70s are celebrating becoming parents for the first time, thanks to IVF.

Daljinder Kaur, who believes herself to be over 70, gave birth to a healthy baby boy after treatment using donor eggs.

She and husband Mohinder Singh Gill, a farmer, have been married 46 years but had not conceived, something which can be seen as a curse from God in their culture.

They underwent treatment at a fertility clinic in the northern state of Haryana, India after coming into some money following a family feud.

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Their baby boy, Arman, was born weighing 4.4lb (2kg) - making Kaur one of the world's oldest mothers.

Kaur does not have a birth certificate, which is not uncommon India, but Anurag Bishnoi, embryologist and owner of the National Fertility and Test Tube Baby centre in Hisar, told the Guardian newspaper that he believed she could be 72.

"God heard our prayers. My life feels complete now," Kaur told Agence France-Presse.

"I am looking after the baby all by myself. I feel so full of energy. My husband is also very caring and helps me as much as he can."

Bishnoi has carried out successful IVF on several geriatric couples.

But he said he was initially reluctant to help the family due to Kaur's age and the fact she looked frail. However, medical tests showed she was fit and healthy, and Bishnoui claimed the risk to her health of becoming pregnant was no higher than if she had been middle-aged.

While the medic recognised that some people may question the use of IVF for older patients, he said the couple had achieved "great happiness" and had relatives who could help care for the boy.

And Gill told AFP he was unfazed by their age.

"People say, what will happen to the child once we die," he said.

"But I have full faith in God. God is omnipotent and omnipresent, he will take care of everything."

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