LONDON, (REUTERS):
A 63-year-old British hospital consultant who is to become one of the world's oldest mothers after undergoing fertility treatment abroad told reporters yesterday she was delighted with her pregnancy.
Patricia Rashbrook, a child psychologist from Lewes, East Sussex in southeast England, and her 61-year-old husband John Farrant posed briefly for photographers and camera crews outside their home.
"We take our responsibilities very seriously and regard the best interest of the child as paramount. What we would wish now is to be allowed the right to pursue our family life in private," the couple said in a statement.
Italian doctor Severino Antinori told Reuters earlier yesterday that he had given in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment last October to an English woman, without naming Rashbrook.
