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Chennai, Aug 27: The 28-year-long wait for a couple in Tamil Nadu to enjoy parental bliss came to an end this morning as they were blessed with twins in a city hospital.

Courtesy a major scientific breakthrough, despite attaining menopause 11 years ago, 56-year-old Brinda delivered twin baby boys at a private hospital here, which doctors claim to be the first of its kind in India.

Both the babies, delivered through an hour-long caesarean section, and the mother were in good health.

As unable to bear a child even 28 years after marriage, Brinda, a former employee of IOB, had approached the Akash Fertility Centre and Hospital here in November last year. Medical tests revealed that the woman's uterus was healthy and her husband, 57-year-old Alagappan's sperm count was less. Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSU) process was adopted by using donor eggs as she had attained the menopause, leading to her conceiving the same year.

''Since she had attained menoapuse, it was difficult for her to conceive and bear a child. We took it up as a challenge. We got donor eggs, used the sperms of Alagappan and an embryo was developed and transferred to Brinda by ICSA process'', Gynaecologist and infertility specialist of the Hospital Dr Jeyarani Kamaraj and her husband Kamaraj told UNI