Listening Repo #1

66-year-old woman has triplets

Access Date: 2010-06-23

Summary
An old woman has just given birth to triplets at age 66. In spite of obvious difficulty and danger, the reason of this childbirth is that they have to grow a family. Her doctor used a young woman’s egg and sperms of the woman’s husband. The trial had failed twice but finally the third bore fruit. In India women have their first babies under their twenty-one. In other hands, there is no limit of upper age to birth. A female doctor is anxious about the possibility that the kid’s parents can be living until they grow. She also referred to unborn baby.

My Opinion
The danger of childbirth at older age is well-known. There is not only the risk of losing mother’s life but also stillbirth, miscarriage and birth of handicapped child. Year by year, in Japan the rate of birth is decreasing. Things which this news shows us are quite contrary. I do not agree with the childbirth of old age but I hope young people consider about their new family and think having a child as their happiness

5 vocabularies
Triplet ----- one of three children born at the same time to the same mother
Egg ----- a cell produced by a woman or female animal that combines with sperm (=male cell) to make a baby
Sperm ----- also sperm cell a cell produced by the sex organs of a male person or animal, which is able to join with the female egg to produce a new life
Publicity ----- the attention that someone or something gets from newspapers, television etc
Fragile ----- easily broken or damaged