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The World’s Oldest Mum Dies – Leaves Toddler Twins
One good reason not to give birth to kids at an advanced age? You may die. Yes, you could be hit by a car, lightening or a speeding train at any time. But when you bring children into the world at the age of 66, the odds of not attending your kid’s high school graduation rise dramatically. A woman in Spain — who is on record as being the...
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New Mum-to-be Is 66 Years Old
I'm sorry if any of the older mum readers who frequent our pages will take this as an insult, but news that a mum-to-be setting a new record in England for her age really made me want to go to take a nap. Elizabeth Adeney is expecting her first child at the ripe old age of sixty-six, making her the oldest pregnant woman in English history. An...
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Older Mothers Drive Baby Boom
New figures show that more than one in five babies in NSW are born to mothers aged over 35, at the same time as teenage pregnancy rates are decreasing - there are now as many women having babies after the age of 40 as there are aged 19 or under. I'm not surprised by these stats at all - at the age of 30 I was one of the younger women in my...
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Is 44 Too Old To Have a Baby?
That's the water-cooler question of the day after last night's season finale of Channel Seven's Packed to the Rafters. In the episode, Julie Rafter, 44 and with three adult children, discovers she is pregnant. Julie and her husband contact specialists to help them make the emotional decision of whether to continue the pregnancy or terminate....
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