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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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3rdLucky · 30/12/2024 18:37

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SpiritOfEcstasy · 30/12/2024 18:36

I had DD1 at 41 & DD2 at 42. Both conceived naturally with very little effort in TTC 😂

pollymere · 30/12/2024 18:15

I've read that peri can cause a last fling of fertility. I think it's carrying beyond six weeks that is less likely. I certainly know people who had a second lot of kids in their late forties and early fifties.

RachelHRD · 30/12/2024 18:13

At a recent gynae appointment the male gynaecologist told me his mother had her last child at 56!! I'm 55 and cannot imagine having another at this age, my 2 are 14 and 17.

Mrswhatsit40 · 30/12/2024 18:09

My dh’s grandma gave birth at 48 - she thought it was the menopause!

BlueFlowers5 · 30/12/2024 18:08
  1. A friend. They were both 46.
Bib1234 · 30/12/2024 17:57

Had my 6th at 43 and was treated like and called a ‘geriatric mother’ - no issues at all though
my friend has just got pregnant naturally with her 2nd, at 50 - he other child is 18 months :)

GivingitToGod · 30/12/2024 17:46

My friend's sister at 47

asrl78 · 30/12/2024 17:44

A woman at my local bridge club had a child at age 48.

Supersares · 30/12/2024 17:42

I had my 3rd and youngest at 44, after 2 miscarriages. Perfectly heathy and much longer for baby girl, now 7. She can be exhausting but wouldn’t have it any other way 😍

Funnywonder · 30/12/2024 12:51

BeachRide · 30/12/2024 11:54

Waves hello! 47 here. Knackering and glorious in equal measures, isn't it?! 😀

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You’re not wrong! I am a wreck😆

BeachRide · 30/12/2024 11:54

Funnywonder · 30/12/2024 00:02

I was 45 when I had my youngest. I haven't met anyone older, but obviously they're out there😆

Waves hello! 47 here. Knackering and glorious in equal measures, isn't it?! 😀

mightyducks · 30/12/2024 11:34

An ex colleague conceived at 49 and 50 when she gave birth , she nearly died in delivery but was okay in the end

GhoulWithADragonTattoo · 30/12/2024 11:18

Two colleagues at 46 and 47. One was a one night stand.

thejadefish · 30/12/2024 09:44

Myself at 44 (albeit born after I turned 45 - he's healthy, meeting his milestones etc, pregnancy was fine). I thought I was really old but this thread is making me feel positively young 😂

MaggieBsBoat · 30/12/2024 07:44

I still have periods on a regular 28 day cycle at 51.
I‘m one of 6.
My mother one of 9 and my grandmother on of 12.

All of us had babies in our 40s. My last (5th) at 43.

I assume that I don’t ovulate every cycle and if I do the eggs are really lousy. Not a risk I’d be willing to take though and I got my tubes tied.

Ohhbaby · 30/12/2024 05:58

MsCactus · 29/12/2024 20:06

I'm enjoying the positivity on this thread, but I agree with you! Another pp posted that research shows the average upper limit of fertility is age 41... So although there will always be outliers, you should probably plan around the averages - as averages mean there will also be people who become infertile younger than 41

While I know people who've had babies in their mid 40s, I also I know quite a few who have struggled TTC in their 30s

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Yes and especially as a lot of these older pregnancies happened awhile back and fertility rates seem to be declining. So even though I'm sure it wasn't uncommon for your great gm or grandmother to have a baby mid 40s, with today's widespread use of plastic, hormonal contraceptives, pesticides, you name it, I wouldn't chance it.
I have read stats that suggest naturally conceiving seem to be a problem for a growing number of couples even in their 30s.

Jumell · 30/12/2024 05:06

As I've say I've known natural pregnancy at 51 and this did result in a successful birth :)

YankSplaining · 30/12/2024 05:05

sashh · 30/12/2024 03:14

But not always.

My grandmother and her sister were teens when their brother was born. He was what was called a 'change of life baby' and predictably named Gerard.

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As a teenager, my mother was friends with “Barbara,” whose mother had a baby when Barbara was 18. Barbara was mortified - “everyone’s going to think it’s secretly my baby!”

YankSplaining · 30/12/2024 05:02

My aunt by marriage’s mother got pregnant at 50, but had a second-trimester miscarriage.

ThatKhakiMoose · 30/12/2024 05:00

mikado1 · 29/12/2024 11:40

NDN - surprise twins at 48.

Oh WHY do people use acronyms so much! I spend a lot of time on the internet and I still have to look up some every day. NDN came up as Native Indian. But also next-door neighbour. I would never have known what NDN meant. Also had to look up p/w, LI, BIC, and a couple of other things I can't remember. I've been an enthusiastic internet user for years and I still find my reading tripped up by all these acronyms. It is literally never ending and very annoying!

No shade to you, PP! I've just had enough of looking up acronyms this week!

Willyoujustbequiet · 30/12/2024 03:21

First child. No ivf.

sashh · 30/12/2024 03:14

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.

But not always.

My grandmother and her sister were teens when their brother was born. He was what was called a 'change of life baby' and predictably named Gerard.

Ladyj84 · 30/12/2024 03:10

My mum 45 my youngest bro now 21 just got married which was mcoe but ye he was a suprise to all of us older siblings and my parents 😊 had my youngest single at 40, twins at 42 and there little monkeys at 2 and 3 now adored by there teen siblings and all very much loved adored and normal home births

JustGotToKeepOnKeepingOn · 30/12/2024 02:50

One of the mums at the childminder my DD went to got pregnant at 49.