The Anonymous Widower

World’s Oldest Mother Dies

This is a sad tale of a lady who gave birth at 66 to twins and then died a couple of years later.

I would never want to be a father at my age of 62, let alone a mother.  It’s just too much responsibility.

But you can’t impose laws on maximum ages to give birth as what would be law in say the UK, would be legal in a country that didn’t want to make it illegal.  Also, there have been cases of natural conceptions of women in their late fifties. With people getting fitter and healthier, it will not be long before a healthy baby arrives to a woman over sixty, who felt that the need for contraception had passed.

It’s a difficult dilemma and it just goes to show how easy for some it is to get pregnant.

July 19, 2009 - Posted by AnonW | Health, World | Childbirth