The oldest you've known someone to get pregnant naturally?

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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?

Colleague. Menopause baby at 46.
My paternal grandmother had my father at 43 , my grandfather was 59. He died when my dad was 12.

My H knows someone (mum of a former girlfriend) who had her last child at 49, naturally.

47, friend of my mum's. The kid was 30 a few weeks back and both he and she seem to still be doing well. Wouldn't have thought it was IVF, as the story I was told is she thought it was the menopause coming early, and she does have older DC.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4389129/#:~:text=MAIN%20RESULTS%20AND%20THE%20ROLE%20OF%20CHANCE&text=The%20cumulative%20curve%20for%20the,100%25%20at%20age%2050%20years.

This makes interesting reading. In “natural fertility” populations, the average upper limit of natural fertility is about 41, but of course it is a bell curve. for some women, the upper age limit will be mid 30s, for a few it will be late 40s.

Wasn't Victoria Core Mitchell over 50 when she had her first? My granny had one at 47 but he died at a few weeks old.

A friend got pg at 45, had the baby aged 46. It was her first (and only), and a complete surprise, she said she thought she couldn't have children.
I've probably met other mums who had babies older than that, as older mums are common in our part of London (I had dd naturally at 42), but I don't know them well enough to know their exact age and if fertility treatment was involved.

My mum at 44. I’ve just put a post up earlier asking if 41 is too old (my husband has raised the subject of having a baby lately).

My friend was 43, but sadly the baby only lived a few hours. It was an IVF pregnancy, heartbreaking for them.
I so wish they had met one another in their 20’s and maybe things would have been different.

Pretty sure the youngest of my great grandmothers “sisters” was actually a niece, one of her elder sisters would have been 19 and unmarried…a big deal in those days.

Friend, 48. Huge surprise!!

Wasn't there a case of someone who had a child at 59 or 60 ( not in the uk though)

Lots of women continue to have regular periods until their mid 59s so it's not really inconceivable (ha) that they conceive at that age

I know of three women who conceived naturally at 44. My friend knows a woman in the next city who says she had a surprise baby at 49.

Nobody gets pregnant at 60 using their own eggs! Periods or not.

@Saschka
Maybe it was 58 and I think it was natural

51, it was natural. She wasn't trying and thought she was menopausal. Gave birth to a healthy baby.
I know far more people who struggle to conceive in their 40s though.

A friend of my aunt had twins at 53. The twins are now in their late 40s

My mum had me when she was 44. Natural conception

59 is listed in the Guiness Book of Records as the oldest age for a verified natural birth.

So 60 would be exceptionally rare, but not absolutely impossible I would think?

DHs grandmother had her 14th child at 50ish (her DOB uncertain, but within a year a 2 either way). Almost 40 years between her oldest and her youngest. She's in her 90s now.

Me, 49 surprise pregnancy. All went well.

Exactly. As someone has said, it's possible to check because it's so rare. That person would certainly be in the Guinness Book of Records!

My great great grandmother had number 11 when she was 50, definitely her child as she was happily raising at least one grandchild as well.

You can tell by the time frame with some though, the grandmother at 47 comment for example would have been natural I'd assume given the time frame that must have been in.

My mum. She was 44 when I was born. Conceived naturally. She didn’t reach menopause until 60.

I used to know a lady, she was the mother to one of my school friends. I ran into her after I'd moved back to my home town and asked if it was her little grandson in the push chair when I saw her in the shop with a small child with tons of curly hair, and she said no he's mine! She said she didn't think she could anymore and hasn't even realised she was pregnant til she went into labour (she was a larger lady). Which must have been a massive shock. She was in her early 50s. She seemed thrilled so good for her I guess.