Annegret Raunigk may not be the oldest woman to give birth—that title goes to the late Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara, who was 66 at the time her twins were born—but she may be the oldest woman to ever give birth to quadruplets. And the four babies, delivered prematurely in May, are now ready to go home.
People reports that Raunigk chose to get pregnant because her youngest daughter, aged 10, was worried about not having a baby brother or sister and asked her mother to have one. The retired schoolteacher chose to honor her daughter’s wish and now the child has a whole assortment of babies to play with and take care of. That’s in addition to the twelve siblings she already has (being youngest must have been hard), some who already have kids of their own. According to reports, Raunigk’s new children are actually younger than some of her grandkids. And Raunigk went to great lengths to have the babies that her youngest daughter asked for.