The oldest mother in China risked her life to give birth to twin girls at the age of 60. How is she doing 11 years later?

In everyone’s mind, women over the age of 30 are generally considered to be of advanced maternal age. Have you ever seen a 60-year-old woman? 11 years ago, a woman in her 60s broke through the fertility limit and also created a medical miracle, becoming the oldest mother in China. She was Sheng Hailin, a woman who gave birth to twin girls at the age of 60.

Both Sheng Hailin and her husband were born in the military. Sheng Hailin is a military doctor, and her husband is also a soldier in the army. They strictly followed the country’s fertility planning requirements and gave birth to an only daughter, which is considered a response. In response to the call to delay marriage and childbearing at that time. During production, Sheng Hailin had to risk her life to give birth to her daughter due to dystocia. Since this child was hard-won, Sheng Hailin and his wife also felt pain for this daughter to the core. They really held it in their mouths for fear of melting, and held it in their hands for fear of dropping it. This child also brought a lot of happiness to the couple.

Sheng Hailin’s biggest wish is to see her daughter get married and start a business. After her daughter has a child, she can also help take care of the child. My daughter is also very outstanding. She has been beautiful since she was a child. When she grew up, she was admitted to the military academy and got married in 2008. The son-in-law is also a soldier, and the two of them are very loving. So far, Sheng Hailin is very satisfied. He can be said to have dedicated everything he has to his children, and he also plans to travel abroad with his husband after he retires. All these imaginations are very happy and complete.

But an accident broke all the beauty. The Spring Festival of 2009 was originally a day for family reunion. My daughter and son-in-law went to her mother-in-law’s house to pay New Year greetings. According to the previous agreement, the couple will be back in two days. But unexpectedly, on the sixth day of the first lunar month, a sudden burst of bad news came. The daughter and son-in-law died of gas poisoning. The moment she saw her daughter's body again, Sheng Hailin felt that her whole world had collapsed. As a military doctor, Sheng Hailin knew that the blood of people poisoned by carbon monoxide does not coagulate, and if the heart stops beating, electric shock must be given to perform cardiac resuscitation. Sheng Hailin's whole heart trembled with pain when she thought of the pain her daughter had endured.

Sheng Hailin has always believed that her daughter is the most precious gift given to her by God. For 29 years, her daughter has been her source of happiness and spiritual support, and she even worries about her daughter’s life after her death. No, he even bought her various insurances to ensure that her daughter would have a prosperous life after her parents died. Because he was afraid that his daughter would spend money to buy a cemetery, he specifically asked his daughter to be buried at sea after his death. She never expected that after she had taken care of everything for her daughter, her daughter would actually die in front of her.

The death of their beloved daughter made the couple completely lose hope, and Sheng Hailin and his wife also tried to save themselves. They thought of selling all their family property and donating a hope primary school in the name of their daughter and son-in-law. In order to help the couple get over their grief as quickly as possible, the relatives and friends around them specially arranged a trip to Xiamen for them. No matter how beautiful the scenery outside was, Sheng Hailin felt that it had nothing to do with herself. All she could think about was the longing for her daughter and son-in-law.

Sheng Hailin even converted to Buddhism and bought a charnel house near his daughter's cemetery, wondering if he could see his daughter as soon as possible after his death. Sheng Hailin informed the master in the monastery of her thoughts, but the master's words made Sheng Hailin despair again. After death, she became a stranger, and they each took refuge in life, which made Sheng Hailin a little discouraged. For a period of time, she even begged her relatives and friends to give them another child to give to herself.

Sheng Hailin read in the newspaper that a child abduction case was solved in Nanjing. There were more than 60 children who were unadopted, so she wanted to adopt one and take her home. However, such abducted children usually go through a paternity test to find their biological parents. Naturally, Sheng Hailin cannot be adopted back. In central welfare homes such as Beijing, Hefei, Tangshan, and Shanghai, normal children have long been taken away, leaving some disabled children with physical disabilities. Thanks to her husband's timely stop, Sheng Hailin did not take the child back.

Sheng Hailin saw his daughter asking for help in his dreams more than once. In order to get his daughter back to him, Sheng Hailin, who believed in science, decided to fight for IVF. She secretly believed that her daughter's life should be divided into two parts. This thought gave her some comfort. However, Sheng Hailin was already 60 years old at the time. When she told her relatives and friends what she thought, At that time, everyone was in shock without exception, including my husband.

Although the husband felt very sad after his daughter left and could only rely on drinking to relieve the pain in his heart, he still felt that his wife's thoughts were almost fantasy. Sheng Hailin was so determined that she even threatened her husband with death, and finally won her husband's consent. In March 2009, Sheng Hailin called her friend who was a doctor in Beijing to express her thoughts. After that, her friend consulted with a famous obstetrician and gynecologist to discuss the feasibility of in vitro fertilization. However, because Sheng Hailin is too old and there is basically no precedent in the country, such an approach will definitely take certain risks, so Sheng Hailin is advised to think carefully.

But Sheng Hailin was basically unwilling to give up. He went to Nanjing to find an expert, but was also rejected.

In July 2009, Sheng Hailin came to the 105th Hospital of the People's Liberation Army. This time the experts were moved by Sheng Hailin's memory of her daughter, so they decided to give it a try and agreed to help Sheng Hailin undergo in vitro fertilization surgery. On October 13, 2009, Sheng Hailin completed the IVF operation. Three successfully conceived embryos were transplanted into Sheng Hailin's body. Sheng Hailin was full of hope and prepared to welcome the arrival of a new life.

At the end of 2009, after in vitro fertilization, Sheng Hailin actually succeeded in getting pregnant. In the eyes of everyone, this is almost a spectacle, but behind the spectacle is still indispensable the efforts of Sheng Hailin himself. In order to successfully conceive a child, Sheng Hailin continued to take injections and medicines for three months, and relied on the support of medicines to restore menstruation and fertility functions. But being pregnant in October is still extremely difficult for a 60-year-old man. During her pregnancy, she experienced a series of unimaginable risks such as heavy bleeding, body pain, and body edema. Taking medicine on its own will cause certain damage to the body, and the most serious result can even lead to death.

But because Sheng Hailin loved her daughter so much, the memory of her daughter made her overcome all difficulties. If she worked hard, she might be able to get her daughter back to her again. It was this thought that kept her going for 10 months. At 9:05 on May 25, 2010, 60-year-old Sheng Hailin successfully gave birth to twin girls. Sheng Hailin also became the oldest mother in China. She named her children Zhizhi and Huihui.

The arrival of the two daughters made Sheng Hailin feel that this was the continuation of her eldest daughter's life, and it was also the greatest comfort to Sheng Hailin's tired life, but it was more about responsibility and happiness. These two babies are also very caring, but this joy is quickly diluted by the pressure from life. After all, Sheng Hailin, who is in her 60s, should have been taken care of by her daughter, but the couple now has to shoulder the responsibility again. The burden of family. Although the couple's original life was relatively good, as the two girls grew up, the financial pressure increased, and the two had to start making money to support their family. When her daughter was less than 100 days old, Sheng Hailin decided to go out to make money. She was almost on the road in the morning, arrived at her destination in the afternoon to give a health lecture, went home in the evening, and went to another place the next day. This is the strength that being a mother brings to Sheng Hailin.

Looking at other old men and women spending all day and night exercising in the park. Sheng Hailin didn't want to compare. What she thought was that once she and her husband passed away early, the two girls would be left alone. In order to prevent this situation from happening prematurely, Sheng Hailin felt that she must live well and make more money before her daughter reaches adulthood to ensure that they will have enough food and clothing in the future. In June 2019, her youngest daughter Huihui suffered from pleural effusion due to mycoplasma pneumonia. I was treated in the hospital for nearly 2 months. While Sheng Hailin had to take care of her daughter in the hospital, she also had to travel around to give lectures to earn money. Two months later, she collapsed on the street due to excessive fatigue.

This accident also made Sheng Hailin realize that she was once a 70-year-old man, and now only living healthily is the most important thing, and being with her family is the most important thing, no matter how much more... Money is no match for the well-being of my family. So Sheng Hailin decided not to fight as hard as before. In 2020, 10 years have passed, and the two girls have grown up healthily. Sheng Hailin said in an interview that if she had to do it again, she would think twice about this decision before making it, and she also hoped that other elderly parents would consider this decision carefully. Giving birth is not the most difficult thing, but the decades of nurturing after birth are the biggest problem for elderly parents.

Although having children brings sustenance, you must first have the ability to raise children well, otherwise you will only end up tiring yourself. The love for her daughter allowed Sheng Hailin to overcome many difficulties and become the first 60-year-old mother in China. Nowadays, Sheng Hailin rarely dreams about her eldest daughter in her dreams, but she has always believed that her two daughters are the continuation of her eldest daughter's life, and that her eldest daughter has returned to her life in this way. There are almost 76,000 new families that have lost their only child in China every year, and some experts predict that before long, there will be 10 million families in China who have lost their only child.

How these families arrange their old age is a very difficult issue facing society. What is your opinion on this?