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I met my pediatrician husband on an Internet dating site. He liked my profile, but he said that he was really hoping to have more children. He was 50 and I was a 49-year-old mother of three grown children—not to mention that I'd already become a grandmother! I thought a new baby wasn't likely to happen, so, longing to be just a few years younger, I wished him luck. Months later, though, he e-mailed again, imploring me to give him another chance. The issue of children, he said, we would leave to God.
We dated long-distance for six months, before we married in 2010 and I moved from New York to Michigan to be with him. Three years later, God gave us an answer: I became a 53-year-old who was pregnant with twins.
A year into our marriage, I consulted with a doctor who told me it could happen, because I was "young for my age." For my husband and me—both divorced, and with six children between us, ranging in age from 16 to 27—the option to reinvent was intriguing. And with our collective physical, emotional and intellectual resources, we felt more competent than ever to be parents. For us, hindsight has yielded a better handle on how early childhood experiences and consistent parenting might influence development later in life. Plus, this time we'd have each other.
It didn't take very long for us to learn a new acronym: BFP (Big Fat Positive) on our pregnancy test. Soon after, I had an ultrasound. "There's the heartbeat!" the tech pointed out, corroborating what I already knew. "And there's the other one."
"You didn't know you were having twins?" she asked me.
"No." My son, daughter-in-law, and grandson were visiting and I knew if I went home, I wouldn't be able to contain the news. I wanted my husband to be the first to know, so I ran to his office, darting between patients. Closing the door to his office, I showed him the ultrasound pictures marked TWIN A and TWIN B. His jaw dropped. "Are you sure?" I nodded. He was scared, but delighted.
Having twins propelled me from what had been a moderately high-risk pregnancy, because of my age, into a definitely high-risk pregnancy, because carrying twins can be difficult. The doctor visits were more frequent and the tests more thorough. The good news is that I have enough ultrasound images of these children to fill an album!
As it became obvious that my "middle-age spread" was turning into a bump, we began to leak the news. Reactions were mixed, especially among our children. One child laughed until she cried, then laughed again and cried some more. Another felt angry and rejected. One child seemed eager to teach our babies ice hockey and lacrosse. My oldest son, a lawyer, was concerned about how we would provide for the babies in case something happened to us. I assured him that we had plans in place—and even asked him to be part of those plans. My 3-year-old grandson just wanted to know when his uncles or aunts would be ready for a playdate.
Eventually, we began to tell our friends. Most friends our age were marrying off their children, enjoying their grandchildren, and talking about retiring to warmer places. As they downsized, we were upsizing, buying cribs and changing tables, setting up a nursery, car seats, and bouncy chairs—all in duplicate. Even though it was odd for some of the grandmothers—as well as some of the girls my daughter-in-law's age—to get used to treating us as new parents, their excitement matched ours.
The home I so carefully decorated with doodads, knick-knacks and glass tables radically changed to accommodate babies, then toddlers and (yikes) teenagers. We began thinking about schools and I begged advice from women barely older than my own children about breast pumps and local resources. And as I ran back and forth to New York to check on my frail and aging parents, I prayed that I will be able to effectively care for them as I jumped back on the mommy track. Life has become a weave of interesting challenges.
When the doctor first told me I'm younger than my age, I thought he was being funny. I had all the aches and pains of a middle-aged woman trying to keep up with life as it flew by. But, weirdly, the transition to carrying a baby again made me feel younger and stronger—even as I entered the late stage of pregnancy. It could have been the rush of hormones surging through my system, or the eagerness to once again nurse and nurture newborn babies. Perhaps it was the excitement of having twins. Or maybe it's just the novel anticipation of starting over with someone that I'm committed to and love so much, and the wonder of learning that reinvention is possible at every stage of life.
Update: On February 15, 2013, Judith gave birth to twin boys!
Judith S. Lederman is the author of The Ups & Downs of Raising a Bipolar Child and Joining the Thin Club .
Copyright © 2013 Meredith Corporation.
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The average age of pregnancy is about 26 years, but this number keeps rising each year. Recently, more women have been choosing to delay first time motherhood until later in their lives in order to pursue careers or other interests first. Nearly all of the women on this list were able to become pregnant so late in life with the aid of various fertility treatments. The others conceived naturally despite the rarity of natural conceptions past the age of 50.
Age When Pregnant: 56 years, 11 months, 27 days
Country of Origin: New York, New York, USA
Method of Conception: IVF Treatment with egg donation
Baby’s Birth Date: November 9, 2004
Aleta St. James is the oldest woman to ever get pregnant and successfully give birth in the United States. In 2004, St. James gave birth to twins just three days shy of her 57 th birthday. Due to the novelty surrounding St. James’ pregnancy at the time, she received a lot of attention and was featured in many national news outlets.
In 2017, the NY Daily News caught up with St. James, who had just celebrated her 70 th birthday, and her twins, Francesca and Gian. The small family appears to be doing well and St. James has fully embraced motherhood and hopes that her life inspires other older women to live their dreams.
Aleta St. James, who works as a life coach and energy healer, now provides advice to other women wishing to become mothers later in life.
Age When Pregnant: 59 years old
Country of Origin: Guernsey, Channel Islands
Method of Conception: Natural conception on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
Baby’s Birth Date: August 20, 1997
Dawn Brooke’s story about naturally conceiving a baby at nearly 60 years of age was not revealed until her son turned 10 years old in 2007. Brooke finally shared the story about how she got pregnant at 58 and gave birth to a son nine months later at the age of 59.
Initially Brooke thought that her aches, pains, exhaustion, and weird cravings were a sign of cancer. Brooke was so worried that she cut her vacation short to seek medical treatment back home. To her surprise, the tests revealed that Brooke was 16 weeks pregnant, making her the oldest confirmed woman to conceive naturally.
According to Dawn Brooke, she looks much younger than her age and people have never questioned why she has such a young child.
Age When Pregnant: 61 years old
Country of Origin: Campania, Italy
Method of Conception: Disputed – claims she conceived naturally
Baby’s Birth Date: September 2016
Nearly all of the mothers on this list underwent IVF treatments in order to conceive their children and were not ashamed to admit it. Unlike these other women, Maria Rosaria Veneruso supposedly conceived her child naturally with her husband, Enzo.
However, the Venerusos’ claims were met with some skepticism as a few fertility experts said that she most likely did use a donor egg to get pregnant. Although some doctors did not believe Veneruso, Dr. Stefano Palmieri, who delivered the baby said that Veneruso’s good health and physical stamina helped her conceive and deliver the baby.
Maria Rosaria Veneruso gave birth to a boy, named Elia Francesco, who was born healthy and weighed a normal 7lbs 7oz.
Age When Pregnant: 63 years old
Country of Origin: Harlingen, Netherlands
Method of Conception: Postmenopausal IVF Treatment with egg donation
Baby’s Birth Date: March 22, 2011
Tineke Geessink became the oldest pregnant woman in the Netherlands in 2010 and gave birth to a daughter in early 2011 at the age of 63. Geessink was a single woman working as a lawyer and had always wanted children, but it did not end up happening naturally. Instead, Geessink went to Italy to receive fertility treatments from controversial gynecologist Severino Antinori.
Geessink’s pregnancy sparked a lot of debate in the Netherlands over the ethics of becoming a mother so late in life. However, Geessink was unfazed by the negative comments and said that “It is no guarantee that if you have a child at a younger age you will see your child grow up.” Geessink believed she had a right to be a mother and would have to just deal with the consequences if she died before her daughter grew up.
Tineke Geessink was not able to receive her fertility treatments in the Netherlands because the country’s doctors have a guideline that states that the maximum age for egg donation is 45 years. Geessink firs learned of Severino Antinori when she saw him on TV saying that hat he treated women until they were 63.
Age When Pregnant: 65 years old
Country of Origin: Bnei Brak, Israel
Method of Conception: Postmenopausal IVF Treatment with egg donation
Baby’s Birth Date: May 2015
In 2015, Haya Shahar became the oldest woman in Israel to ever give birth at the age of 65. Shahar had been married to her husband, Shmuel, for over 46 years and the couple was never able to conceive naturally. Since IVF treatments are illegal on women over 54 years of age in Israel, Shahar had to receive her treatment abroad.
According to the Shahars, who practice Hasidic Judaism, their previous rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov Issachar Ber Rosenbaum, had told the couple that they would be blessed with a child not long before he passed away a few year’s before the Shahars’ son was born.
Haya Shahar and her husband Shmuel named their son, Shimon Chaim, after Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, a 2nd-century Tannaitic sage in ancient Israel.
Age When Pregnant: 66 years old
Country of Origin: Spain
Method of Conception: Postmenopausal IVF Treatment with egg donation
Baby’s Birth Date: December 2006
Although several women have had babies later in life, Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara is still often cited as the official oldest mother/pregnant woman in the world. This is because Bousada de Lara’s age had been definitively confirmed as 66 (she was a few days shy of her 67 th birthday) when she gave birth to twins in 2006.
While Bousada de Lara’s twins were born healthy, less than a year later Bousada de Lara was diagnosed with cancer. Unfortunately, Bousada de Lara died a few years later at the age of 69.
Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara lied about her age to receive her IVF treatment from a private clinic all the way in Los Angeles, California, which she paid a reported £30,000.
Age When Pregnant: 70 years old
Country of Origin: Hissar, India
Method of Conception: Postmenopausal IVF Treatment with egg donation
Baby’s Birth Date: November 2008
Rajo Devi Lohan is another older mother from India who was pregnant when she was 70 years old. Lohan underwent IVF treatments in 2007 when she was 69 and gave birth to a daughter the following year. While the pregnancy was a success, Lohan nearly died while delivering the baby.
Lohan’s story was followed up in 2013, when she was 74 years old and her daughter, Naveen was 4. According to Lohan, having her daughter has made her feel healthier and stronger and she feels that she will live long enough to see Naveen grow up.
Rajo Devi Lohan is not worried about her daughter’s future if Lohan dies before she grows up because her husband has another wife, Umi, who is much younger than Lohan. Also Lohan owns land, which she her daughter will inherit as she is Lohan’s only child.
Age When Pregnant: 72 years old
Country of Origin: India
Method of Conception: Postmenopausal IVF Treatment with egg donation
Baby’s Birth Date: April 19, 2016
Daljinder Kaur had her first child at the age of 72, making her the oldest pregnant woman ever in the world. Due to her advanced age, Kaur did not conceive the baby naturally and underwent a controversial postmenopausal IVF treatment. Additionally, donor eggs were used in Kaur’s fertility treatments.
Kaur had first started her fertility treatments back in 2013, but the first round was unsuccessful. She went through another round of IVF, which also failed, before successfully giving birth to a son named Arman in 2016.
Daljinder Kaur had tried to have a baby for over five decades with her husband, Mohinder Singh Gill, who was 79 when their child was born.
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