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The oldest you've known someone to get pregnant naturally?

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ineedtowomanup · 29/12/2024 10:56

My Grandmother was 44 when she had my youngest uncle, a healthy pregnancy and my uncle is now 47.

What's the oldest you've known someone to conceive and give birth?

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SallyWD · 29/12/2024 15:54

51, it was natural. She wasn't trying and thought she was menopausal. Gave birth to a healthy baby.
I know far more people who struggle to conceive in their 40s though.

aliceinawonderland · 29/12/2024 15:53

@Saschka
Maybe it was 58 and I think it was natural

Lisbeth50 · 29/12/2024 15:38
Saschka · 29/12/2024 15:38

aliceinawonderland · 29/12/2024 15:37

Wasn't there a case of someone who had a child at 59 or 60 ( not in the uk though)

Lots of women continue to have regular periods until their mid 59s so it's not really inconceivable (ha) that they conceive at that age

Nobody gets pregnant at 60 using their own eggs! Periods or not.

ScruffMuffin · 29/12/2024 15:38

I know of three women who conceived naturally at 44. My friend knows a woman in the next city who says she had a surprise baby at 49.

aliceinawonderland · 29/12/2024 15:37

Wasn't there a case of someone who had a child at 59 or 60 ( not in the uk though)

Lots of women continue to have regular periods until their mid 59s so it's not really inconceivable (ha) that they conceive at that age

Lifelover16 · 29/12/2024 15:28

Friend, 48. Huge surprise!!

user87349287657 · 29/12/2024 15:26

My friend was 43, but sadly the baby only lived a few hours. It was an IVF pregnancy, heartbreaking for them.
I so wish they had met one another in their 20’s and maybe things would have been different.

Pretty sure the youngest of my great grandmothers “sisters” was actually a niece, one of her elder sisters would have been 19 and unmarried…a big deal in those days.

Newtothisplace · 29/12/2024 15:23

My mum at 44. I’ve just put a post up earlier asking if 41 is too old (my husband has raised the subject of having a baby lately).

lensape · 29/12/2024 15:20

A friend got pg at 45, had the baby aged 46. It was her first (and only), and a complete surprise, she said she thought she couldn't have children.
I've probably met other mums who had babies older than that, as older mums are common in our part of London (I had dd naturally at 42), but I don't know them well enough to know their exact age and if fertility treatment was involved.

SwedishEdith · 29/12/2024 15:18

Wasn't Victoria Core Mitchell over 50 when she had her first? My granny had one at 47 but he died at a few weeks old.

FreedFromDesireMindAndSensesPurified · 29/12/2024 15:15

47, friend of my mum's. The kid was 30 a few weeks back and both he and she seem to still be doing well. Wouldn't have thought it was IVF, as the story I was told is she thought it was the menopause coming early, and she does have older DC.

MathsWizard · 29/12/2024 15:14

My H knows someone (mum of a former girlfriend) who had her last child at 49, naturally.

ConsuelaHammock · 29/12/2024 15:12

Colleague. Menopause baby at 46.
My paternal grandmother had my father at 43 , my grandfather was 59. He died when my dad was 12.

GreenTeaLikesMe · 29/12/2024 15:12

Someone in my craft group was 50. Definitely not IVF as it was a huge shock according to those who knew her at the time. She recovered fro: the shock and now has a lovely teen daughter!

unmemorableusername · 29/12/2024 15:10

For most of these you just won't know if it was natural or not. Most people lie and say it was when it wasn't.

Hearttoharttoheart · 29/12/2024 15:09

My grandmother, 48, her child is nearly 70 now.

BruFord · 29/12/2024 15:08

A friend got pregnant naturally at 46 (unplanned!) and had him at 47. He’s now a healthy teenager!

Rowansiskin · 29/12/2024 15:05

54 The aunt of a woman I worked with. She said the physical strain of the whole thing nearly killed her.

LadyWiddiothethird · 29/12/2024 15:05

48,naturally and all was well.

CMOTDibbler · 29/12/2024 15:03

A colleagues dsis was 51 when she was having abdominal pains and went to A&E. 28 weeks pregnant, and she'd not used contraception in 17 years as she'd tried to have another child after her only and it never happened. She had a textbook pregnancy (despite most of it being totally unaware) and birth, perfect baby

twilightcafe · 29/12/2024 15:02
  1. One friend who's child is now a teenager. Another natural conception at 43 was an old schoolmate. But I don't know if that resulted in a live birth.
TwistedWonder · 29/12/2024 15:00

Not the oldest but a friend had twins via IVF at 42 then fell pregnant naturally less than a year later - again with twins. So after being childless and trying for years, she ended up with 4 kids with 18 months

TwistedWonder · 29/12/2024 14:58

51 and that was in 1989. A lot of people said she wouldn’t live to see her DD reach adulthood but she’s now 86 and still going strong with a 35 year old DD