Oldest new mother gives birth at 63

A 63-year-old Dutch woman has given birth, becoming the oldest new mother in the Netherlands, the hospital and news reports say.

"Baby Meagan was born at the Medical Centre Leeuwarden at 9.48am [7.48pm AEDT] on March 21," a statement on the website of the hospital in the northern Dutch province of Friesland said on Monday.

"Meagan is the daughter of Tineke Geessink, a 63-year-old woman from Harlingen."

The girl was born with the aid of caesarean section, the statement said. "Both mother and daughter are fine."

Dutch media reports said Ms Geessink was the oldest Dutch woman to become a mother.

"It is a feeling that I have had for so long [to have a child]," the woman told Dutch public radio NOS.

"At some point there was something inside me saying: 'It's now or never', and I decided to try everything possible to see if it is still possible."

NOS said the woman fell pregnant through a foreign sperm donor as Dutch fertility doctors would not help her due to her age.

"There is no guarantee that if you have a child at a young age you will see your child grow up," Ms Geessink, a single mother, told the radio.

"Of course, the risk with me is bigger. And whether the child will find it nice to have such an old mother ... I hope that she loves me so much that she will just be glad to have me."

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Seen from a distance there seems to be nothing special about the family in a village in Haryana in northern India. A shy young girl hides behind her mother. But from closer up, you suddenly notice the woman’s wrinkles, and the grey hair under her headscarf.

Rajo Devi Logan, who in late 2008 suddenly became famous as the "oldest mother in the world," proudly stands up and breaks into a broad smile as she talks about her daughter.

"I'm so happy with my daughter! Before she was born, I didn’t feel attached to anything. The neighbours used to talk about us with pity."

Rajo Devi doesn’t like to go back to the period in which she and her husband, Balla Ram, had no children. Like many people in rural India she doesn’t know exactly how old she is, but Rajo Devi is at least 70 years old. Her husband is 80, he says. Two and a half years ago, their daughter Naveen was born, at least 58 years after the couple married.

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Three weeks have passed since Carole Hobson brought her IVF twins home from hospital and it’s clear her once ordered life as a mature, single career woman has been completely turned on its head.

A sky-high pile of freshly-washed babygros, bedding and towels sits on the dining table and the ironing board stands permanently in the living room. With the volume of washing, there is obviously little point in putting it away.

She tries to snatch a quick toasted cheese sandwich while son Matthew and daughter Freida sleep upstairs, but manages only a mouthful before the babies start crying in unison.

‘As you can hear, they both have a lusty set of lungs,’ she smiles, padding upstairs to lift Freida gently from her cot while replacing Matthew’s dummy.

Carole is averaging just two or three hours of sleep a night and admits to feeling completely exhausted at times with the relentless routine of feeding, burping, changing, washing and sterilising bottles. After all, she does not have a partner to share the strain.

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Cases of daughters asking their mums to become surrogates are rare, but in 2001 Vivien Morris, 54, gave birth to her own grand-daughter.

Her daughter Laura Westrop, 29, was unable to carry a baby after treatment for cervical cancer. So Vivien, a playgroup worker from London, volunteered to help Laura and her husband Mark.

In 2005, 53-year-old Annie Casserley gave birth for her daughter Emma Hattersley, who was diagnosed with an extremely rare form of cancer when she was 19, and son-in-law Andrew.

Liz Buttle, from near Lampeter in West Wales, became the UK’s oldest mum at 60 when she gave birth to a son called Joseph in 1997. She now lives in Ireland.

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She carried him in her own womb for her daughter and son-in-law Nichola and Mathew Pagett after her daughter discovered she was unable to carry a baby.

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Their prayers seemed to have been answered when, through the method of in-vitro fertilization (IVF), Saroj was able to conceive again. The couple's elation knew no bounds when she ultimately gave birth to a healthy baby girl on February 10. Their joy doubled when they were informed that Saroj was the oldest woman in the state to have had a successful post-menopausal delivery with the help of IVF.

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Mrs Arora said: “It is very nice to finally have the whole family at home, and he is getting on very well with his brother and sister."

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