67 and having Twins!

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Blimey what is the world comming to Here! Quite sad for the children having such an old mum, when they are 13 their mum will be 80.

she isn't the first 60something to get pregnant using donor eggs, sadly, though she is the oldest. Some doctors have no ethics IMO.

No, you can't - or at least you can't in any of the clinics I have spoken to over the years (I write about fertility sometimes). It's quite often done as a deal whereby you get some free IVF if you donate your first lot of eggs.

I couldn't do it either, actually. But to the medical profession it's like donating blood or organs, you don't control the process. There was a case where a racist said they would donate their kidney or something but only as long as it didn't go to a black person, and they were turned down as a donor as you cannot make conditions. This was a particularly repulsive condition, but all conditions are treated the same.

It's different only if you are donating to a relative - like it is with kidney transplants. You can offer to donate to a specific person, like your sister or SIL, for example.

I can see this story putting off people from donating their eggs and that's a very sad thing. I imagine lots of women would be horrified at the prospect of their eggs being used by someone over 60.

Aloha - at the racist donor. That's repulsive.

Apparently the woman had always wanted children but been unable to, and has had 10yrs of fertility treatment. I wonder why she didn't adopt children, though - I believe she's Romanian and we certainly heard a lot about Romanian orphanages at once time so children must have been available. Is there a daddy on the scene, apart from the sperm donor? I haven't seen him mentioned.

I think it's v sad that she feels that she had her career to the detriment of having a family, but I think it's unfair & selfish of her to have these children now. I have no doubt that she'll love the kids to bits, but no-one can deny that her remaining lifespan is not going to be all that long.

She is talking complete crp when she says, ?It?s a dream come true. I worked so hard in my career I had no chance to start a family. I regretted it but I never gave up hope.? She did have the chance, she chose* not to, therefore she must accept her previous choices make her desire to become a Mum a thing of the past.

Suedonim, there was a quote from someone involved with Romanian orphanages saying that there are lots of children still in orphanages and needing a home. But maybe even an orphanage wouldn't hand over a baby to a woman of 67. If she wanted to do it ten years ago then she could probably have adopted a child, but I think she's truly selfish. The irony is that egg donation means the child is no more genetically hers than one which is adopted - it's basically pre-birth adoption. And no father on the scene either.

And just to back up aloha, it is impossible for HRT to delay the menopause. If they are her eggs she must have donated them prior to the menopause. Far more likely that she has had IVF....and even the clinic must have been aware of the bad press this would cause. Very foolish (and I was an older mum myself)

Am I the only one who thinks that article is made up from beginning to end

Well, it was in The Sun!

I dont know how she will mange. I'm only 23, and hubby is 24, but when our ds was young (eg sleepless nights etc), we were constantly shattered.
We still feel tied now, even though ds as been asleep in the nights now for many months, you all know what i mean, looking after ds, washing, cleaning, shopping etc. Im shattered every night, god knows how she will be feeling!!

Aloha, I meant adopting years ago, not now. The story I saw said she'd never been able to have children which was why I wondered why she hadn't adopted as a younger woman. But NCMM's story that, basically, she was too busy to have children makes more sense. It's a pretty selfish thing to do imo - she's only 10yrs younger than my mum.