How old is the oldest mum of a newborn you know or knew?

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I'm 36 and would like to ttc around Christmas.

I've 2 dc but would love a third.

I don't think 36 is old now for a baby but then I scare myself by googling too much!

My cousin had unexpected triplet boys at 45!! Not an altogether welcome surprise I might add!
I was in hospital with a woman of 50 who had naturally conceived and discovered she had cancer during her pregnancy and had had to choose between delaying treatment or terminating her pregnancy and she chose the former.
Also used toi work with a woman who had her eldest two children at 19 and 21 and then her 'surprise' at 47.so a 26 year gap!

48ish I think. A friend of a friend. Natural as far as I know.

My DM had me at 22 and my DB at 49! She calls him her "change" baby. DM thought her periods had stopped until she felt DB move.

I just had my 6th DC - I will be 48 in 2 months time! All went well and blessed to have a healthy baby. My consultant said I was the oldest naturally conceived baby he had dealt with.

I had first DC age 34, DC2 age 37, DC3 age 40, DC4 age 42 and DC5 age 45.

You are young OP

As a child I knew a woman who had a baby the same day as her daughter.

I knew a lovely lady who was 59 when she gave birth, naturally, to her son. (Yes, she holds, or held, some sort of record). I don't know her any more as we moved away. I used to go to ballet class with her - she was 70 ish at the time, giving us 20 and 30 somethings a real run for our money. Incredible.

My 45 yo friend just had her second dd a few months ago. All very healthy, no complications :)

Personally - 52, it was their 5th child. Natural and unplanned healthy daughter.

Oh, and NDNs have a nineteen year gap between oldest and youngest of three. She told me, after a little more hooch than was wise, that the youngest should have been called Whoopsie

50 - she thought it was the menopause. A bit of a shock, I think, but everyone seemed very happy a few years later, child included.

Know personally 46 and she's loving it. I will be younger than that when dd is 18.

My cousin at 38.

43, my DH's cousin and also a friend of mine and a friend of a friend.

lockedout was that the lady who kept it quiet till the boy was ten? If so it wasn't UK, it was Channel Islands, I'm aware I am being pedantic!

Come to think of it the conception could have been anywhere, but the birth was in C.I.

My paternal grandmother was 45 when she had my dad. He was very much a later life surprise baby, he had two older brothers (both of whom are sadly dead now) who had moved out before he was 10.

The generation gap was a real problem for my dad. My grandmother had come of age in the 1920s and had been a "bright young thing" in London, going to debutant balls and sparkling dinner parties when she was in her teens (she even once sat next to Einstein at a dinner party!). My father was the same age in the late 1960s and fully embraced the hippy lifestyle in all its grungy dope fuelled glory. Their experiences of life were so different that they could never see eye to eye, and he regrets as an adult they never had much of a relationship.

My colleague was 49 when she had her third DC - very unexpectedly, following a one night stand. Her older DC were in their mid twenties at the time. Her DD was very supportive, her DS was utterly mortified but got his head round things once the baby arrived.

My grandmother was 46 when my DM was born.

DM fell pregnant naturally with me and DTwin at 37, she was 38 when we were born. Took seven years of trying but she says the upside of that was her and DF could go on lots of nice holidays

Friend, 43 first time mum
friend of friend 46 first time mum

I'm not sure if you're asking about mums because of the concern of stress on your body, or whether you're talking about being an older parent generally speaking.

Assuming the former, 32. Assuming the latter, a father starting at the age of 64 and having 4 children over the next 5 years (the last at 69).

With the former, she didn't start until she was 31. First born there was a slew of complications (spd, 40 hour labour resulting in emergency c-section, punctured spinal cord requiring a blood patch) but it was an almost 10lb baby. Second was a scheduled c-section and went much better.

With the latter, again assuming you're asking about how it is to be an older parent (emotionally/physically speaking) no negative effects of having an older parent. Often commented they made him feel young, kept him active.

Do what you feel is right. I'm 32 and TTC our first. I do wish I had started earlier, but then doesn't everyone when it takes a while? I'm not concerned about how well my body will take the pregnancy, I'm worried about whether I'm too old to conceive naturally and will require intervention (which is why I'm undergoing tests now)

47 with donor eggs, 50 naturally - that friend had also had them at 47 and 49.

47. Me. Totally unassisted. Healthy pregnancy and birth.

44, the last baby born to anyone in my class at school.

41

Andrewofgg Yes, it was that lady.