A 61-year-old Japanese womanhood has disposed birth to her own granddaughter later on being implanted with a fertilized eggs from her daughter, a Tokyo paper reports.
Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan's largest dailies, attributed the information to the head of a motherhood clinic in the township of Shimosuwa, in Nagano prefecture, west of Tokyo.
The clinic director, Yahiro Netsu, has championed the utilization of surrogate mothers to bear children for unfertile women, a practice frowned on by Japanese aesculapian authorities, simply said he does not usually commend childbearing at such an advanced historic period, the newsprint said.
The woman's name was not disclosed, and it was not clear when the child was born. By some accounts, the birth occurred last year.
The clinic said on its website that the woman became pregnant at 60 and gave birth at 61, Asahi said. Netsu plans to report the case at a coming together of the Japan Society of Fertilization and Implantation that starts next week, it said.
The Times of London, in a report card from Tokyo, called the birth "a 'miracle' that has astounded one of the world�s fastest-aging societies � sparking renewed calls for the entire process of surrogacy to be banned in Japan."
Eight deputy mothers have given birth at the clinic and four of them were implanted with fertilized eggs from their daughters, the Associated Press reported.
A clinic spokeswoman aforesaid the 61-year-old was believed to be the oldest surrogate mother in Japan, and intelligence reports suggested she was the oldest woman to have given birth in the nation, the Associated Press said.
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