Adriana Iliescu, an author and academic, conceived after undergoing fertility treatment, the BBC reported Wednesday.

Iliescu told local television that she had always wanted to be a mother but had been unable to conceive naturally.

She said that since her family has a history of longevity, she is not worried about becoming a mother at her age.

In April 2003 a 65-year-old Indian woman gave birth to a boy, her first child after being married for 50 years.

Satyabhama Mahapatra, a retired schoolteacher from Orissa state, gave birth after being impregnated with an egg from her 26-year-old niece that had been fertilized by the niece's husband.