Woman, 62, gives birth

A 62-year-old Redding, California, woman gave birth to a healthy 2.3kg baby boy through in-vitro fertilisation, becoming one of the oldest women in the world to successfully bear a child.

The newborn is the 12th child of Janise Wulf, who has been blind since birth. She is a grandmother of 20 and great-grandmother of three. The oldest woman on record to give birth is 66-year-old Romanian woman Adriana Iliescu.