Oldest Female with offspring

[Shaztoni]

I don't think any of us could beat these:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4971930.stm

 

Sharon

[behindthefrogs]

The record recorded oldest mother having an entirely natural birth in this country was 55.  According to the radio which is discussing this at this very minute there were two who have achieved this.  There was one in Russia who had twins at 58.

[Nadine Moore]

There is a lady in Lewes, Sussex who is 62 and is expecting (although it is by IVF), she will be 63 when the baby is born.

This was on the radio today, she already has two children and went to an Italian (I think) doctor for the IVF.

She will be the oldest woman to give birth in the UK when it happens

I am 41 and the thought of having a small baby scares me to bits, I enjoy my freedom too much now.

Nadine

[Shaztoni]

63 and with the average life expectancy in England 80.2 for a woman, the poor child will most likely be mother less before it reaches 20 

Sharon

[Nadine Moore]

Just found the link to the story

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4971930.stm

Nadine

[Jean McGurn]

Sharon

I know from experience what the child  of this latest mother will feel like.

When they go to school the other children will have young mums and they (the children) will ask them what it's like living with their gran and what happened to their mum.

My adoptive mother died when I was just 12 yrs old. Her husband had died two days after I was born so I never had a 'dad' or even grandparents. A thing I have always regretted even though it wasn't my fault.

The childs brothers and sisters will all be so much older than he/she will be so will be growing up with adults all around them.

Mind you on the plus side, I was adopted during the war -  most likely into a family that is connected somewhere along the line to my birth father, there is also the fact that I could quite easily have been one of those poor children who were sent to Australia and now cannot find their ancestry or even sent out to Canada on the City of Benares.

Jean

[JAP]

Jinks,

Of course there will always be exceptions but the generality in the 1700s and 1800s in the UK seems to be that most women had their last child at about age 42/43.  And when births occurred later, one tends to be suspicious (perhaps unfairly so) that the child was actually an illegitimate child of a daughter.

In the 1900s (and now) there were (and are) births at later ages - even as late as 50 and perhaps a very few years above.

But these current births to women in their 60s are hardly comparable - the women are apparently surrogate wombs (hormonally enhanced) carrying babies sired by their husbands who have impregnated, in vitro, a donor egg of a woman of child-bearing age.

JAP

 

[jinks]

JAP

Thanks for you indepth reply.

I know my Great Grandmother was in her
forties when she married for the first time and
then went on to have three children.
I have found her unmarried on the census
and then 10years married with three children.
At first I thought they may have been step
children, but I also looked for the husband
he was was marrying for the first time too.

This subject as suddenly become very topical
with the Lady in her Sixties.... I believe a
young 60.... OK It may not be natural.

Any Gynaecologists on the site?

Jinks
later

[w105uk aka Margi :-)]

doesn't matter if physically she is a young 62! she is still going to be nly 70 when the child starts school!!

i am in 50's with grown up children and would rather look forward to grandchildren than more of my own