70 year old gave birth

[scaredmom330]

no kidding it was on msn.com..can you image ladies...having a newborn at 70. I can't at 50. can a 70 have one, don't you go through menopause long before 70....you would be 90 when it started college...never live to  see any grandchildren...sorry just blew my mind...

[NautyOne]

What The Blank Were THey ThiNking !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[HelpinUtah]

WOW!  I'm 46 and haven't had children yet - but we have been contemplating having a child at my age.  But, at 70!!!!  I'm regular for the first time in my whole life!!!  So, I figured why not try.  Of course, I have to get over this flu bug!!!  

[enemy48]

Nope, I just can't grasp that.

It only took one pregnancy at age 25 to teach me that the couple of ladies that told me that being pregnant was fun......were really out to get me!

Pregnancy & elderly age?  Whoa, imagine seeing that on a 70 year old using a walker.

Think it's really true?  I've never heard of 70 year olds that aren't in menoapuse by then.  Even so, pregnancy is very possible during menopause, so who really knows?

More power to her, I say, I guess.

[Lady_Baglady]

I just had the most disturbing mental images. Gross.

[kim715]

OMG....I'm speechless.Really I don't know what to say to that.Thats just crazy.

[dominosarah]

Who in their right mind would EVEN have a fleeting moment thought about having a baby at 70??

[scaredmom330]

here is the whole story....

A 70-year-old woman in India gave birth to her first child, a girl, after undergoing infertility treatment, according to a report in the Daily Mail.

The mother, Rajo Devi, had been trying for 50 years to get pregnant with her 72-year-old husband, who had failed to become a father in two prior marriages. It was undetermined whose egg and sperm were used in the treatment, the newspaper reported.

Devi became pregnant through in vitro fertilization at a clinic in the northern Indian state of Haryana after doctors determined that she was healthy enough to survive a high-risk pregnancy. The mother and her infant daughter are reportedly both doing well.



Devi is the second 70-year-old in India to give birth this year. In July, Omkari Panwar, a mother of two daughters — and grandmother to five — gave birth via Caesarean section to twins, a boy and girl, after undergoing IVF. At the time, Panwar — although she had no birth certificate, so her age couldn't be verified — became the oldest woman to give birth. In 2006, a 67-year-old woman in Spain gave birth to IVF twins.

Although advances in fertility procedures have increasingly enabled older women to give birth, some medical ethics experts question whether clinics should accept a 70-year-old as a patient. The doctor who treated Devi said he didn't expect any medical problems for the elderly woman and her child, except for the likelihood that the child could be orphaned at an early age because of her parents' old age, the newspaper reported.