Please tell me the oldest person you know who got pg and had a healthy baby

[rytonsister]

Just that really.

Who is the oldest person you know who gave birth to a healthy baby .

Yes I obviously have a reason to ask and no I dont want to share save to say I had a terrible pg mid 40s and have no baby to show for it.

Thanks ....give me some hope? Ridiculous as it seems.

Op you're right on about Ethel story. My MIL had her dc4 at 48 thinking she was approaching menopause. Perfectly healthy 16 year old now.

My grandmother had my mum at 47 back in the 1940s! She thought the pregnancy was the menopause...

I know someone who has just celebrated her 60th, and the twins are 13, so 47.
I also know someone who has just had her 5th baby. The oldest child is 22. Not sure how old Mum is, but that's a pretty stonking age gap!

Fingers crossed you get some happy news soon, and are having newborn snuggles before the year is out

My great grandmother had her 12th and final pregnancy at 46, a son. This was in the 1950s. That baby is my mums uncle and is actually younger than she and some of her other cousins are!

Friends of my parents on their second marriage and she got pregnant at 50. As far as I know everything went smoothly and healthy baby girl was born.

A friend had a baby at 45.

A friend had her first child (without trying) at 47.

46

47

But some celebrities spring to mind we're older

Halle Berry
Brigitte neilson
Tina malone

My aunty at 46.

Me 40.
2 friends 42.
1 friend 43.

My Grandma thought she had the menopause aged 48 and it turned out to be my dad.

Her twin sister was called Ethel...

43 - an aunt who had needed ivf for her first, had suffered a myriad of issues to the point a dr told her she'd never conceive again so she could have a hysterectomy (but she didn't), was very overweight...thought she was hitting menopause and it was a baby! She had a perfectly healthy pregnancy, delivery and baby. Said baby is now 17 at grammar school and planning her gap year!

My nan had my mum at 47, she thought she was going through the menopause.

They had several rounds of ivf all unsuccessful and had given up
Think they went on holiday and came back pregnant.

I worked at a drs surgery and a lady came in pregnant naturally at 47.She was very surprised to say the least!

41 for certain. There's a woman on my street who is at least mid 40s with a 2yo so she might have been older but I don't know her well enough to ask.

I had a healthy (surprise) dc5 at 44 and to my shoulder found myself pregnant again the year after. That baby did not make it. Downs and heart problems.
After his birth I was desperate for another baby and managed to convince myself that it should be possible given that I knew of two women who had a baby at 50.
Got hormones checked and all, no reason why I never became pregnant again but I suppose the two pregnancies in my mid 40s where my bodies last ditch attempt to have more babies.
I remember during the time when I was processing my grief by trying to convince myself that I could have another one talking to a midwife I knew and trying to get her to reassure me that lots of women in their mid to late 40s were having babies. She said they do see them but not n most cases it is not their own eggs.
I am now in my 50s and have to say I am happy about my youngest daughter starting to become more independent and to not have any younger ones. But it takes a while to get to that point.

My gran was born when her mum was 51! That was in the 1920s so no reliable contraption obviously!

I worked with a woman who was a surprise baby. Her mum was well over 50 at the time of her birth. Somewhere between 52 and 55, from memory. And my former colleague is now in her 50s herself, so this certainly pre-dated fertility assistance.

My nan had my dad when she was 44 and my grandad was 51? Obviously was a long time ago and absolutely no medical intervention with it- they thought she was menopausal at first. They'd gotten married later in life (for the 1950s) and so had given up on having children together.

My FIL was born in 1957 and his mother was 46 when she had him (15 years after my husband’s aunt). A woman I used to work with had her daughter at 43 after several losses. She conceived again several times but sadly never ended up with a second child.

Celebrities pregnant in their late 40s and 50s are basically without exception using donor eggs. You can get pregnant in your 70s with donor eggs if you can find a clinic unethical and unregulated enough to help you, but I'm not sure that is v helpful to the OPs desire to (presumably) have a natural conception, I'm afraid.

I work as a midwife so although I don't personally know of many mums having babies at such ages, we'd quite often have mums delivering aged 44-47. Older again with assisted conceptions.
I suppose it's hard to assess though. I'd imagine that the vast majority of women who don't get pregnant in their 40s are intentionally not pregnant iyswim

Methyl I wonder if the woman in that situation was actually the granddaughter of her "mum", with her older "sister" being her mum. I think it happened sometimes that children of unmarried mothers were passed off as surprise late babies of the grandparents. Of course this might not be the case (mayne she doesn't even have a sister!) , but having a natural pregnancy in your 50s sounds very unlikely!