A 72-year-old woman who gave birth aged 66 is considering having another child

[nick]

A 72-year-old woman who gave birth aged 66 is considering having another child and becoming the world’s oldest mother once again.

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Adriana Iliescu said fertility trials in England involving a 70-year-old woman had inspired her to believe that it would be possible for her to have another child.

The Romanian became the world’s oldest mother in January 2005 when she gave birth to Eliza, but she has since been beaten in the record books by Rajo Devi, a 70-year-old Indian woman whose daughter was born in November 2008.

Ms Iliescu, a writer and part-time university lecturer in Romanian literature, who lives with Eliza in a two-bedroom flat in Bucharest, told The Daily Mail: “Medically, it’s possible. I understand there are trials going on with a 70-year-old woman in England, so it could be done. I am fine and healthy and I think it would be possible to have another child in the future, but I’m not in a rush at the moment.

“I am so close to Eliza, so bonded with her, I’m not sure I’d be able to consider having another child if it actually came to it.

“Eliza is energetic and fun — a very happy child. She is everything to me and nothing else counts or matters. The child is mine and that’s all I care about, but medically it is not impossible for me to have another child.”


Source (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8130935/Mother-aged-72-considering-a-sibling-for-her-five-year-old-daughter.html)

[Kaius]

Tbh.. I don't think it'd be fair on the child or the one she has already if she were to have another one. There could be more severe complications during the pregnancy and the older girl could lose her mother, or if she gets through it the older girl and the baby could possibly be left without a mother if she ends up dying in future coming years. I think its quite selfish if shes doing it just to win the title of worlds oldest mum tbh.

[Fact]

From reading that part of the article, it sounds like she's only after the title, not another child. I don't understand why she'd want to create ANOTHER life, when she's already got one child to be taking care of and seems happy enough with her...
For her to have another child at this stage in life would be pretty ridiculous IMO.

[Amnesiac]

Why would she do that?

She needs to realize that she's not supposed to be having children. It's time to stop when there's a 99% chance that you won't live to see your next child grow up.

[Bath]

How is that possible? To have that many eggs in you to last 72 years?

[Sith Lord 13]

How is that possible? To have that many eggs in you to last 72 years?

As you begin puberty, 300,000 eggs remain (You're born with more but they fade away) That's more than enough to last a lifetime.

[Jess]

wow. just wow.
I think one child is enough :/

[ShyGuyInChicago]

As you begin puberty, 300,000 eggs remain (You're born with more but they fade away) That's more than enough to last a lifetime.

True, but as a woman gets older her eggs lose quality. A 72 y/o woman or any post menopausal woman would have no viable eggs left and to get pregnant would need donor eggs. Even then it is a long shot to get pregnant.

[Sith Lord 13]

True, but as a woman gets older her eggs lose quality. A 72 y/o woman or any post menopausal woman would have no viable eggs left and to get pregnant would need donor eggs. Even then it is a long shot to get pregnant.

They would be of low quality, but potentially still viable.

[Peace God]

So who's the lucky guy?... Aww come on someone's gotta take one for the team. This record is history in the making.

[ShyGuyInChicago]

They would be of low quality, but potentially still viable.

Maybe, but most likely not. It would not be a realistic expectation.

[Sugaree]

So who's the lucky guy?... Aww come on someone's gotta take one for the team. This record is history in the making.

Five bucks it's gonna be Bill Clinton.

[Sith Lord 13]

Maybe, but most likely not. It would not be a realistic expectation.

Actually, properly treated, it would be.

[ShyGuyInChicago]

Actually, properly treated, it would be.

Actually no. Menopause cannot be reversed. This woman would have to use donor eggs. Anyway this is some information on how a woman's egg production works through her life.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CCsQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ehow.com%2Fway_5661894_happens-woman_s-eggs-after-menopause_.html&ei=9hLiTM_VBMiAnQevx9mmDw&usg=AFQjCNF2z7jESsovQUsC_b2QfuIiftkckw&sig2=729AluQM5QaDnq5knSI9xg

[nick]

What strikes me about these stories is not so much the fact that there's so sad, selfish old woman out there that wants to do this but that there are doctors prepared to give her the treatment. Those are the ones whose morals and sense I really question.

[Sage]

Man, fuck old people. They're expensive and selfish.

[chazzrox2]

She is doint nothing but punishing her own children by continuinf to be there mother. If social services can get involved with underage pregancies where the child may not have the most beneficial start in life then they should definitley get involved in this kind of thing.
Atleast with under age pregancy you will still have a mother, you will still frow up, you will still be loved...The life expectancy in britain is about 77 for women right? So she is statistically condemming her child to a life without a mother from the age of 6/7? Sick!

[OnceMoreWithFeeling]

It seems like she just wants the title. She shoul be happy with the one miricale she has.

[YesterdaysNews]

I watched a documentary on this, and I think it's completely selfish and wrong. These kids are going to go through hell when their parent dies of old age when they're 12, or younger. And think of the kind of ridicule they could experience. Going into school, "my mom's 70." When all the other parents are going to be in their thirties or forties. It's not right.

There's a woman in India who's now considered the world's oldest mother, she's 74 or something and has an infant.