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How can this happen? Mother gives birth in her 70s with IVF?

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user87382294757 · 06/09/2019 10:21

Mother gives birth in her 70s with IVF? To twins..How can this happen, unless using a donor egg/s? Confused

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49575735

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summersherewishiwasnt · 06/09/2019 21:18

Egg donor, she went through the menopause 25 years ago.
Just because mankind “can” do something doesn’t mean it should.
Doctor’s ego have a role in this imo.

EJStrange · 07/09/2019 09:15

I'm sad to think their child will have a short amount of time with their parents given their age Sad

While I'm here, can you help? I've set up a campaign to end the IVF postcode lottery on the NHS and I need your help with to get signatures on and share the parliamentary petition link below. It's not right that something as arbitrary as postcode should dictate the treatment we receive for infertility on the NHS. I started the campaign as I had to cancel a round of treatment halfway through when my GP misinformed DH and I that we could have 3 rounds of IVF on the NHS. As you can imagine, we were devastated. 3 months ago (after a year off due to depression) we paid to restart that round privately, but sadly my pregnancy ended in MC at just shy of 8 weeks.

The campaign has backing from Fertility Network UK, IVFBabble, The Dovecote.Org, and my MP Layla Moran who will be submitting an Early Day Motion to Parliament about this next week (Sept 2019).If you're interested the campaign is also on Facebook and Twitter @IVFfairness.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/266747

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