World's Oldest Mom Bears Twins at 67! I still have six months to wait to break this record!

I'm 67, like this woman:

World's Oldest Mom Bears Twins at 67
By Associated Press
5 hours ago

MADRID, Spain - A 67-year-old Spanish woman became the world's oldest mother after she gave birth to twins in the northern city of Barcelona on Saturday, a hospital official said.

The woman, whose identity has not been revealed by Sant Pau hospital, gave birth by caesarian section on Saturday having previously undergone in vitro fertilization in the United States, according to the national news agency EFE.

Originally from the southern region of Andalucia, the new mother chose the Barcelona hospital because it specializes in high-risk births.

The mother and twins are all doing well though the babies are both in incubators, a hospital spokeswoman said. The hospital did not reveal the gender of the twins.

The previous holder of the oldest mother record was 66-year-old Romanian citizen Adriana Iliescu who gave birth to baby Eliza Maria in Jan. 2005.

From the AP:

http://www.comcast.net/news/strange/index.jsp?cat=STRANGE&fn=/2006/12/30/551938.html&cvqh=itn_oldestmom

This is the bunch of his 'n' hers kids we raised -- count 'em -- five!



I'm done! Having too much fun with hubby... with travel and no obligations, not even a dog!



Thanks for asking!

Have a happy New Year!

Our children now range in age from oldest (48) to youngest (37).

All of them have kids of their own.

I'm 63 and healthy.....:evilgrin:

:)

:evilgrin: old players never give up...do we ? :rofl:

:hi: :party:

Thank goodness we're both sterile, because we can just get together for fish... get together for the halibut...

She'll be a 70 year old with twin three year olds. Just one three year old ran me ragged, and I was more than young enough to be that woman's granddaughter.

Any doctor with sense and ethics would have told her there's a reason nature doesn't make mothers of women her age, and sent her to a shrink for having such a wild idea.

The saddest thing, it's entirely likely those kids will not make it to adulthood with a mother who is alive and aware.

and can only muddle through with the Latino Spanish I studied in high school.

I'm 52 and very active. But, my 4 yr old grandaughter totally exhaust me out at times.

But, the best thing is -- we get to give them BACK!

I'm 53 and there's no way I'd consider having a child at my age. Not only do I not have the energy for chasing a toddler around (and I shiver at the thought of what it would be like to have a teenager when I'm 66), it's just not fair to the child. And yes, I also object to older men who become fathers.

I always wonder if these people who have children when they're past 50 have spent much time with kids and have any idea how much time and energy they take.

Believe me, I've had enough mothering to choke a horse!

As an only child, I had no idea what I was getting into.

I should have been childfree -- not that I don't love my kids. But it was the hardest job I've ever done, and there were some professional choices along the way that I might have considered had I NOT had all those kids.

In vitro is an expensive procedure, and she traveled to the States for this. She probably has a maid, a cook and a nanny. There's no mention in the article of a husband/father, (and I can't imagine a 67 year old husband going along with this), which increases the chances these kids will be orphans before they reach adulthood. Knowing how much time and effort it took to raise my three kids to be decent adults (and the teenage years were the toughest!) I think this woman is loop the loop over the moon nuts. I mean think about it! An 82 year old woman with 15 year old teenage twins?!?!? Sounds to me like some woman who lived her whole life without finding any purpose to it unless she had children. At 67, the in vitro would not even have involved her own eggs. So she got an egg donor, and a sperm donor - why the hell didn't she just adopt?

and that was hard enough. I can't imagine twins at 67!

grizzly, polar, koala...

(sorry--I bet I'm the only one who thinks this is funny, but it's been one of those days)

:rofl:

and selfish beyond compare.

Sorry - if you are old enough for an AARP card, don't go waltzing into a fertility clinic.

However, I know several older males who have young kids...

Larry King
Don Imus
Clint Eastwood

Just pop into my mind... but they all have younger wives.

These children will grow up as orphans on purpose with no hope of a full range of family interaction. My kids totally rely on their 72 year old grandmother for emotional support and reflection on their nutty parents.

These are kids that will grow up with no father, a failing mother, no grandparents, no aunts or uncles and god knows what disabilities. This is just tragic; people are not sharks that can drop their young and move on.

Either companionship in her old age, or caretakers (free), or maybe she needed some heirs to pass her fortune on to.

Describing the situation as a "tragedy" is rather harsh, but funny.

It's not a rush. I can start in the spring and still get in before the deadline...

WHAT AM I SAYING?

Had her last child at 50. She already had a double digit number of children, with the oldest couple already having children. I think the world record was around 60 for non assisted motherhood.
We must remember though that we are one of the few animals who cannot have children in old age. There have been female animals that had offspring much past the average life expectancy for the species, such as cats in their 20's having kittens. It is interesting that we evolved this way, to stop being able to have children while we are still healthy, but older.

Humans maintain a whole life relationship with their young...unlike most other species.

It takes a long time for a human infant to mature to a point where they can truly live independently. and female fertility falls off (perhaps) so that the elder generation can live long enough to help raise the next generation.

remember, women were "gatherers". so it might have been nice to have the elder women "babysit" while mom was out gathering. Toddlers wandering off would have been easy prey ..

my .02

from the late 1880's and early 1900's it wasn't uncommon for women to have children in their 50's.


But I still think this was a selfish thing she did.