Italian woman becomes country’s oldest mother at 63 after giving birth to healthy boy by caesarean section following fertility treatment in Ukraine

An Italian woman has become the country’s oldest mother at the age of 63 after giving birth to a healthy baby boy following fertility treatment in Ukraine.

After months of IVF treatment in Ukraine, even under the threat of bombs from Russian troops, little Sebastian was born on June 3 to his mother Flavia Alvaro.

Flavia, who turns 64 in October, gave birth to Sebastian, who weighed almost two kilos, by caesarean section earlier than expected at the Versilia hospital in Lido di Camaiore, north-west Italy. 31 weeks and four days.

The librarian’s fertility doctor, Andrea Marsili, told Corrier della Sera that Flavia recently told him about her travels to war-torn Ukraine, where there is no legal age limit for fertility treatments.

“She arranged them completely independently and it was only pointed out to me afterwards,” he said about the new mother, whom he also called a “stubborn woman.”

Flavia, who turns 64 in October, gives birth to Sebastian at the Versilia Hospital in Lido di Camaiore, northwestern Italy (pictured)

Sebastian is currently in the hospital’s premature department and can go home when he has regained sufficient weight.

But the journey of his birth was not easy at all.

When she arrived in Kiev last fall, Vladimir Putin’s forces attacked the capital.

In the chaos of the war, she became lost in Kiev. The Ukrainian fertility clinic was forced to call her hospital in Italy to ask where she was.

In addition to having to undergo fertility treatment in Ukraine at a time when war was ravaging the country, Flavia’s treatment alone cost €15,000.

Flavia also tragically suffered a miscarriage when she first tried the treatment.

But it was all worth it in the end to become Sebastian’s mother.

Flavia broke the previous record holder for the oldest woman to give birth in Italy.

That title was held by Gianna Nannini for only fourteen years, after she gave birth to baby Penelope at the age of 56.

But Flavia is nowhere near the current record holder in age, the Indian woman Erramatti Mangamma, who gave birth to twins in 2019 at the age of 73.

However, she is comparable in age to British record holder Elizabeth Adeney, who gave birth to her son in 2009 at the age of 66.

The businesswoman also traveled to Ukraine for IVF treatment as clinics in Britain refuse to treat women over the age of 50 and the NHS does not recommend fertility treatments for women over the age of 40.