After a woman underwent two years of IVF therapy and gave birth to her first child at the age of 70, doctors in India voiced ethical and medical concerns.

Following fertility therapy at a facility in northern India, Daljinder Kaur became pregnant with her 79-year-old husband and gave birth to a healthy boy last month.

After facing years of humiliation in a nation where infertility is occasionally seen as a curse from God, Kaur claimed that the couple, who have been married for 46 years, were thrilled to finally welcome their first child.

“I consider myself lucky to be able to hold my own child. I had given up on ever becoming a mother,” Kaur told AFP from her Amritsar, India, home.

I once felt hollow. There was a great deal of solitude. In India, where many people do not have birth papers, Kaur estimated her age to be approximately 70, but the clinic stated in a statement that she was actually 72.

However, Sunil Jindal, a fertility expert, highlighted concerns regarding a newborn child’s relationship to old parents as well as the mother’s health. There are moral problems. I believe it is unfair to subject a woman over 60 to such a surgery,” Jindal told AFP.

“It’s stressful enough that a 70-year-old woman has to support a child.”The next concern is how the parents will take care of the infant.

That is also a significant task. After two unsuccessful attempts, the clinic in the northern state of Haryana informed AFP that the couple’s baby was conceived using Kaur’s egg.