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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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CortieTat · 03/01/2025 09:17

I’m 46 and 7 months pregnant, so myself. Planned, spontaneous pregnancy, DH is two years older.

It’s not my first child/pregnancy and I’m very fertile, I generally get pregnant fast when we decide to TTC. My fertility definitely plummeted after 43 though, due to egg quality. We have been TTC since 2020 and I miscarried nine times before this pregnancy.

Inyournewdress · 03/01/2025 04:17

Oldest I have personally known of to conceive naturally is 47.

Chocolatetoothache · 03/01/2025 01:57

Newsenmum · 02/01/2025 19:44

Secondary infertikity is very common. Egg qualify later in life is very different.

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Yes, but it doesn’t affect the majority of women in this age group (mid/late 30s).

Anonymouseposter · 02/01/2025 19:48

My auntie had her last child at 48, with a 22 year gap to her older son. He was a surprise, he's grown up now.

Newsenmum · 02/01/2025 19:44

Chocolatetoothache · 01/01/2025 00:40

But that doesn’t make the previous statement untrue?

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Secondary infertikity is very common. Egg qualify later in life is very different.

Didimag · 01/01/2025 12:07

a physio working in our maternity unit, two ladies 53 years old. For one it was her first child.

GreenTeaLikesMe · 01/01/2025 00:50

ThisIsMessedUp · 31/12/2024 09:05

Women used to be fertile until older. Microplastics and enviromental pollutants have resulted in declining fertility for both woman and men, and earlier menopause.

Not true. Average age at menopause was about 5 years earlier in previous centuries.

Chocolatetoothache · 01/01/2025 00:40

Newsenmum · 31/12/2024 17:17

Not true for me. First baby easy and first cycle, second years and ivf.

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But that doesn’t make the previous statement untrue?

Balaclaval · 31/12/2024 23:24

I didn’t know her (died before I was born) but my Great Great Grandmother had 17 children, the first when she was 20 and the last when she was 47.

Witknit · 31/12/2024 23:17
  1. A lovely story from 30 years ago when I was a midwife, as the lady was infertile due to cancer. She had developed an abdominal mass and had delayed going to GP being convinced and terrified that the cancer had returned. She was pretty much resigned to her fate....it was a healthy 24 week pregnancy
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ineedtowomanup · 31/12/2024 18:14

56 wtaf!

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Elsvieta · 31/12/2024 18:12

47, accidental. That was in the nineties. And a relative at 45 (in the sixties). I think those are the only people I've known in my life who conceived naturally after 43/44.

MyStylish40s · 31/12/2024 18:09

My mum’s friend had a surprise baby at 49. That baby would now be in her late 20s.

A school mum friend had twins at 48, but she was very open about the fact that she used donor eggs

Both of my grandmothers had babies into their early 40s.

CandyLeBonBon · 31/12/2024 18:05

noodlebugz · 30/12/2024 20:11

56 - had a coil. (Legitimately IMHO) Assumed it was the menopause so didn’t find out until about half way through.

Omg!!!

Christmasbear1 · 31/12/2024 18:04

Women can naturally get pregnant up to the age of 55

PeloMom · 31/12/2024 18:02

47 for the woman, 68 for the man

ETA it was an accident. No issue pregnancy.

Almostwelsh · 31/12/2024 18:01

Krampers · 31/12/2024 17:57

Wrong
A friend fell pregnant accident 33 (termination)
First baby 40 but needed IVF
There are so many factors but its call secondary infertility and is actually quite common in the IVF clinic.

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One person isn't really a representative sample size. And 40 isn't mid 30s anyway.

Krampers · 31/12/2024 17:57

Almostwelsh · 31/12/2024 16:59

I suspect that at least some of the women who have IVF first babies mid 30s or later were probably sub fertile all along, they just didn't know until they started trying at 30+

Many of the natural conceptions at advanced age are from women who have already had children, often larger families. Women with tested fertility.

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Wrong
A friend fell pregnant accident 33 (termination)
First baby 40 but needed IVF
There are so many factors but its call secondary infertility and is actually quite common in the IVF clinic.

MrsMoastyToasty · 31/12/2024 17:29
  1. It was my friend's 6th child and she thought she was going through the menopause. Her eldest was 25 at the time (and still gets mistaken for his little sister's dad).
Newsenmum · 31/12/2024 17:19

ThisIsMessedUp · 31/12/2024 09:05

Women used to be fertile until older. Microplastics and enviromental pollutants have resulted in declining fertility for both woman and men, and earlier menopause.

Yup there are far more fertility problems at a ‘younger’ age. Also we need to remember that 38 isn’t actually ‘young’ for fertility, even if it doesn’t sound very nice. Fertility is just the youth part or womanhood.

Cherrysoup · 31/12/2024 17:18

Colleague who was 49. Very unexpected. Child is now 16, I think. Perfectly healthy.

Edited to say, it wasn’t her first child. Her dd had by this time had a child.

Newsenmum · 31/12/2024 17:17

Chocolatetoothache · 31/12/2024 16:19

Also I should say most of my friends who TTC in their mid to late thirties required assisted conception /IVF.

A majority of women don’t need this in their mid to late 30s so for most of your friends to require it was unlucky.

Not true for me. First baby easy and first cycle, second years and ivf.

Newsenmum · 31/12/2024 17:16

noodlebugz · 30/12/2024 20:11

56 - had a coil. (Legitimately IMHO) Assumed it was the menopause so didn’t find out until about half way through.

Jesus what did you do!

Almostwelsh · 31/12/2024 16:59

Chocolatetoothache · 31/12/2024 16:19

Also I should say most of my friends who TTC in their mid to late thirties required assisted conception /IVF.

A majority of women don’t need this in their mid to late 30s so for most of your friends to require it was unlucky.

I suspect that at least some of the women who have IVF first babies mid 30s or later were probably sub fertile all along, they just didn't know until they started trying at 30+

Many of the natural conceptions at advanced age are from women who have already had children, often larger families. Women with tested fertility.

Chocolatetoothache · 31/12/2024 16:19

Also I should say most of my friends who TTC in their mid to late thirties required assisted conception /IVF.

A majority of women don’t need this in their mid to late 30s so for most of your friends to require it was unlucky.