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?

47 is the oldest I have known a woman have a baby through natural conception...This was 2009. She and her 43 y.o. DH already had a son. So this was their second child. (She had her first son at 30, then got pregnant at 46, and had another son. Didn't know she was pregnant until she was 6 months in.) This is the ONLY woman I know who had a baby by natural conception as old as 47 though.

Apart from her, I have known (in my life) around half a dozen women have a baby at a similar age - 45 to 46 years old, (by natural conception,) and every last one (including the first woman) had a problem with the pregnancy, and the birth, and the child had some kind of health issues/problems. Some they didn't discover til the child was a bit older. But they all had some kind of health issue. (Not saying every child born to a 45-47 y.o. mother via natural conception will have some kind of health issues, but they are far more likely to than if the mother had been early 40s or less...)

As for the people saying their gran/great aunt etc had a baby at 51/52-or older. Highly unlikely. Chances are high that she took on a child of one of her daughters, or nieces...Or even a child of one of her sons... Happened quite a lot pre mid 1970s. (Still happens now occasionally...) The chance of conceiving naturally even in your early 50s is vanishingly small. Mid 50s, nigh on impossible.

@Rubyupbeat · Today 13:17

Twin boys, mum was 55 and Dad was 80, their 3 other children had grown up and left home and the twins were a complete shock, their youngest being 22.

I met them at the clinic I worked at.

100% certainty this was IVF.

@YouLookinSusBro · Today 20:05

56! A woman at work. Was a surprise natural conception too.

No it wasn't. No woman would ever conceive naturally at 56. It was either IVF, or this woman took on a grandchild and attempted to pass it off as her own.

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I really don't think I would. I have a large family, all conceived within a month of trying. I still ovulate every month. Cycles are regular. The family member in question is my grandmother and my whole family seems to be as fertile as her. So I don't expect I'd have a lot of trouble having a baby at this stage. Of course, I don't know and I don't plan to find out.

52, a friend of a friend. Definitely natural as she was gobsmacked and distraught - her other kids were late 20s! She had a miscarriage around 8/9 weeks.

My aunt at 44, was a completely unexpected accidental pregnancy. Healthy pregnancy and birth and my cousin is now in his twenties.

I also know somebody who had a baby at 47 with a big age gap between her other children (by same father) which makes me think it may not have been planned/ was a natural pregnancy but I don’t know her well enough to know for sure.

Someone I worked with's wife got pregnant at 49, she was 50 when the baby was born. They had 2 older dc at university, she thought it was the menopause & went to the doctors to ask for HRT & the doctor did a pregnancy test. She sailed through the pregnancy & delivery, after a couple of years they both took redundancy from their jobs & became stay at home parents, got involved with school when their dd started, did everything they missed out of with their older dc due to work, their dd is 17 now.

I delivered a first baby to a 56yr old woman. Natural conception after many years of unsuccessfully trying. First she knew was when I found her to 5cm dilated in A&E, where she had been sent by GP with intermittent abdominal pain, suspected ovarian cyst! Baby was perfect, and I don’t think I ever met happier parents.

The oldest woman known to conceive naturally was 59 (verified and in the Guinness world records) so it’s absolutely not impossible a woman conceived naturally at 56. It may be rare but it’s not impossible.

My grandma was 47 when she had my dad, his sister & brothers were 17, 15 & 11 years older than him.

"Change of life" surprise babies used to be a regular occurrence. Women thought they were through menopause so stopped taking precautions. Then, oops.

The midwife who delivered my son told me she had once delivered a baby to a woman of 50, which definitely wasn't IVF - the mother had assumed she was menopausal and the pregnancy diagnosed late.

The oldest I've known personally was 44, youngest of a large family, but definitely hers not a cover up for a daughter as she was visibly pregnant.

@PreferMyAnimals I’m also surprised that I’m still having regular periods at 50 (had one with a six-week gap, but then went back to 28 days). I presume that I couldn’t conceive, but who knows? Luckily DH has been sorted out so there’s no chance. 😂

I knew a lady, mother of 6 who got pregnant at 52 and had her healthy son, 7th child at 53 years old

43. The child has Downs Syndrome.

52... naturally conceived, first baby

Mine too. Not taking any chances. 😄

I was rounding down when I said 50. I'm actually 52 coming up in a few months and regular as clockwork, still ovulating. Everyone I meet seems to have stopped in their 40s, though I read of women continuing till their later 50s and find that a bit discouraging. I'm ready to be done.

42. I found out recently that she sadly died at 49, 5 years ago.

My great gran was early 50's when she had my grandfather. I think my mum said 53. This would have been around the1930's.

I know of a few who had them in early 40's. Mostly first time mums.

48 naturally and baby is healthy and now 5yo!

You may still be ovulating but it’s highly unlikely your eggs are viable.

My aunt. 48.

48 - second husband, two late teen children already.

She now has a six year old at 54!

@KimberleyClark You're right, it’s just interesting how we all have different experiences. I assumed that everything would have wound down or at least be irregular by 50, but that’s not the case!

My mam's friend had her first son at 18 and her 4th at 48.
Not IVF - first was at the start of Second World War and 4th was in 1969.

Based on my personal and family history, it's not a chance I'll take. I really hope my eggs are not viable though. Now, if all the rest would just stop, I'd be thrilled.

My grandmother had her last baby at 43 or 44.