A 63-year-old British child psychiatrist has announced she's seven months pregnant after successful in vitro fertilization at an Italian clinic.

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Patricia Rashbrook, who has two adult children, spent about $90,000 for the treatment in Rome last October by controversial gynecologist Severino Antinori, The Times of London reported Thursday.

Antinori has made the news for his work with post-menopausal women and attempts at human cloning.

Meanwhile, Rashbrook and her 61-year-old husband, John Farrant, told The Sun they were looking forward to the birth.

An unnamed friend of the couple told the newspaper Rashbrook is considering going back to work after the child is born.

"She may be 63, but she has the energy of a woman 20 years younger," the friend said.

The world's oldest mother is believed to be Adriana Iliescu, of Romania, who had a daughter at the age of 66 last year.