A 70-YEAR-OLD woman who claims that she is six months pregnant with her eighth child will become the oldest woman to give birth if it proves true.

Maria de la Luz has shown reporters ultrasound scans which she says confirm she is six months pregnant with a baby girl.

“They told me it is a girl. Look, you can see her little face,” she said at her home in Mazatlan, a city in the Mexican state of Sinaloa.

De la Luz, who did not reveal any details of the pregnancy including whether she had had in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment or other similar procedures, said she first suspected she was pregnant three months ago.

“My legs hurt and I was vomiting and felt dizzy. Now they have done around 10 ultrasounds in a private clinic and in the (public) social security hospital. The doctors could not believe it,” she told reporters.

If the baby girl is born, it will make De la Luz four years older than the current record holder, Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara.

Currently the oldest verified mother in the world, Bousada de Lara, was 66 years and 358 days old when she gave birth to twin baby boys, Christian and Pau, in December 2006.

They were delivered prematurely by caesarean section and weighed 1.6 kg each.

Omkari Panwar from the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, gave birth to twins in 2008 but her claim to have been 70 was not provable.

Likewise, there were also other women that were older when they had children and claimed to be of a similar age but again none of the ages have been verified.

De la Luz said some of her children were not happy with the news that she was pregnant, saying they told her she was too old for “those things.”

She has an appointment with a gynaecologist July 18 and she said she is expecting to have a caesarean delivery because of her age.

Bousada de Lara previously admitted that she had lied to physicians about her age when seeking IVF treatment at a clinic in California.

She then went on to become the world’s oldest documented mother, surpassing the record established in 2005 by Romanian mother Adriana Iliescu, who was also 66. (SD-Agencies)