A 60-year-old Calgary woman has given birth to twins at the Foothills Hospital.

The baby boys were delivered by caesarean section on Tuesday morning.

Ranjit Hayer received in vitro fertilization treatment in India, using donor eggs, and originally conceived triplets.

The cut off for IVF conception using donor eggs in Canada is between 45 and 50-years-old.

The mother has become the oldest woman in Canada to give birth.

The two babies were born 7 weeks premature and are in stable condition at the Foothills Hospital

One of the babies is in the Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit and the other is in the Special Care Nursery.

The mother had a few complications during her pregnancy but she is also in good condition and recovering well.

Dr. Cal Greene at the Regional Fertility Program in Calgary says clinics should not be treating patients in their sixties and seventies. He says the medical risks to babies and mothers are too great.

Dr. Greene also says all the fertility clinics in India shouldn't be condemned for the actions of a few doctors but he worries that the fertility treatment will be tarnished by this kind of story.

Medical ethicist Margaret Somerville of McGill University says a child's best interests are the most important consideration when women use fertility treatments, especially when they become mothers past their natural child-bearing years.

She says the ethics are further complicated by the fact many older women are no longer producing eggs and so aren't even genetically related to the children they deliver.

The woman may be the oldest in Canada but last year, ABC News reported that a 72-year-old woman in India gave birth to twins after in vitro fertilization, making her the world's oldest mother.