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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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whatthedickens5 · 29/12/2024 13:17

At 44 naturally with twins. Also first babies as childless before then.

Rubyupbeat · 29/12/2024 13:17

Twin boys, mum was 55 and Dad was 80, their 3 other children had grown up and left home and the twins were a complete shock, their youngest being 22.
I met them at the clinic I worked at.

Saz12 · 29/12/2024 13:10

My GM at 48, her daughter (my aunt) was 46 when she had her second. Has always been touted as a family issue, along with arthritis and annoyingly thin hair.

MsCactus · 29/12/2024 13:10

My grandmother was 45 when she had my Dad - she did die at 51 tho

ThewrathofBethDutton · 29/12/2024 12:51

Me. 42 total shock.
Given up all hope and stopped trying.
Difficult pregnancy, healthy wee one.

Iloveburgerswaymorethanishould · 29/12/2024 12:48

Someone I know had one last month. Naturally. She is 47 and the dad is 55 I think!! Surprised everyone in our friendship group as the dad is very much not into children!

LeticiaMorales · 29/12/2024 12:46

Saschka · 29/12/2024 11:44

I’d also point out that in a lot of these “great aunt with teenage daughter had a surprise baby at 50 in 1957” cases, the baby was the teenage daughter’s and it was being passed off as the 50 year old’s for reasons of social acceptability.

Yes, that was not unusual.

mitogoshigg · 29/12/2024 12:46

Sil was 46, had given up any thought of conceiving having tried for 5 years including fertility treatments. 8 months after last treatment and after deciding they would give up their jobs at the end of that year (thankfully 1 month before giving notice) she convinced with no assistance.

LeticiaMorales · 29/12/2024 12:45

Anewuser · 29/12/2024 10:59

My friend had her second child at 48.

When the midwife delivered my grandchild, she said she’d delivered to a 53 year old mum that morning. I asked if it was a surprise baby, midwife said it was the mum’s third child (all under 5), what a woman.

I'm going to agree with pp and say this was probably assisted conception.

Dontcallmescarface · 29/12/2024 12:42

My Nana was 48 when she gave birth to my mum. Two days later mum's elder sister gave birth to her 1st child at the age of 19. It's weird to think that mum became an aunt at 2 days old.

Potatoewithawonkyeye · 29/12/2024 12:40
  1. Didn't know it was twins until in labour. So I was definitely an accident suprise!
IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 29/12/2024 12:26

Friend, 44. Deliberately ttc for the first time!

PickledPup · 29/12/2024 12:03

My uncle was born when my G.gran was 50 - we have a picture of her, pregnant and looking very grumpy about the whole thing 😂

AmusedMaker · 29/12/2024 11:45

Having babies way into your 40’s was completely normal in my grandparents day. No IVF back then, ( 1930’s Ireland ) but getting pregnant never seemed to be an issue, even at 45/46.

Saschka · 29/12/2024 11:44

I’d also point out that in a lot of these “great aunt with teenage daughter had a surprise baby at 50 in 1957” cases, the baby was the teenage daughter’s and it was being passed off as the 50 year old’s for reasons of social acceptability.

ShimmySkirt · 29/12/2024 11:41

I knew 45 years old for a woman who had a healthy child to term but 47 of pregnant but sadly the baby couldn't make it to term. My mum had me and later my brother at 40 and 42.

mikado1 · 29/12/2024 11:40

NDN - surprise twins at 48.

Saschka · 29/12/2024 11:38

Anewuser · 29/12/2024 10:59

My friend had her second child at 48.

When the midwife delivered my grandchild, she said she’d delivered to a 53 year old mum that morning. I asked if it was a surprise baby, midwife said it was the mum’s third child (all under 5), what a woman.

That almost certainly wasn’t an unassisted conception.

PrincessHoneysuckle · 29/12/2024 11:37

47.I was receptionist in a gp surgery and a woman came in for a booking appointment for a very surprise pregnancy.

honeylulu · 29/12/2024 11:27

52, total surprise to her. She was going to terminate (had been dating but no partner) but miscarried anyway.

Oldest live birth I'm aware of personally - 46. Brother of a family friend was dating a lady with a grown up son. She found she was pregnant at 45. They got married and baby was born alive and well. She had another one (planned) the following year!

fuckingidiotseverywhere · 29/12/2024 11:23

A colleague was 49 when she became pregnant naturally with her 5th child, 50 when she gave birth. Her eldest daughter at the time was in her 20s and she said many people assumed she was grandma when they all went out together. It didn't bother her though I don't think.

CagneyNYPD1 · 29/12/2024 11:23

46 and a half. First baby.

MissionaryMumtoOne · 29/12/2024 11:16

Acquaintance gave birth at 46 and then again at 49, but I don’t know them well enough to know if they had IVF, donor eggs etc or if was natural.

A close friend of mine gave birth naturally at 45 (no IVF and was her own egg)

NewGreenDuck · 29/12/2024 11:15

I had a colleague who had her one and only at 48,she assumed after years of trying that she was infertile. A client had a baby at 51. I felt positively young at 40.

Yazzi · 29/12/2024 11:14

53, an immediate family member. Her doctor thought it was menopause but she said she knew it was pregnancy, having had children.

She miscarried at 8 weeks, fairly inevitably.