‘Midlife moms’ seek more respect from society

That mature lady sitting on the playground bench beaming at her toddler may have some gray hair, but don’t call her “grandma.” She may well be a member of America’s fastest-growing fertility group: mothers 40 and older.

And if she is one of these “midlife moms,” she would appreciate a little more respect.

No observer, for instance, can know what Kelli Suchy and her husband went through to become parents.

“It wasn’t a choice on my part” to marry at 39, endure six in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures, lose two pregnancies, and then finally adopt at age 45, said Mrs. Suchy, founder of parentingbyadoption.com.

Angel La Liberte, who entered “babyland” when she was 41 and again at age 44, created FlowerPowerMom.com to “tell the truth about motherhood after 40.”

This Mother's Day, Mrs. La Liberte and others are launching an online campaign to build support for older mothers and jettison phrases such as “advanced maternal age” and “geriatric pregnancy.”

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Will Zsa Zsa Gabor Welcome Baby No. 2 At 94?

Ailing actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, 94, and husband Prince Frederic von Anhalt could be expecting a baby soon!

It may require the help of an egg donor, artificial insemination, and a surrogate mother, but von Anhalt tells CNN that the procedure is already underway.

"I've gone through the initial steps of donor matching and blood work and next week the donation process will begin," says von Anhalt.

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Empowering Women Having Children After 40

In 2010, the CDC reported that the only age group in the United States to show a RISE in birth rate were women over 40.

Flower Power Mom is offering advance membership to the first online community to empower women having children after 40, launching USA Mother's Day, May 8th, 2011.

To join now, go to: www.flowerpowermom.com/community

For more information on the A CHILD AFTER 40 campaign video, Pay It Forward Mother's Day Gift Pendant, and online resources, go to: www.flowerpowermom.com/a-child-after-40

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Meagan Callaghan, 50, desperate to be a mum

A WOMAN is desperately seeking a donor so she can become an IVF mum at 51.

Despite medical risks - and the prospect of having teenagers in her late 60s - Meagan Callaghan, who will be 51 in June, is advertising for donor eggs.

"Life passes by so quickly, one minute you are 20 and the next you are 50," she said yesterday.

"This is my last chance and I'm not going to give up on it.

"I have always wanted to be a mum, but it just hasn't happened."

Ms Callaghan's doctor, Prof Michael Chapman from IVF Australia, said his clinic treated women up to 51.

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Mother's Day 2011: A Child After 40

It’s a mother of an evolution—launching Mother’s Day, 8^th May, 2011 at www.flowerpowermom.com/a-child-after-40. Discover the silent maternal army.

A Child After 40 is the first campaign to empower women on the journey of motherhood after 40. Watch the revealing new video. Join the coming A Child After 40 online community. Check out the Resources with websites, blogs, books and info for mothers over 40 and women who wish to be—whether through natural fertility, IVF, egg donation, surrogacy or adoption. Pay It Forward with A Mother’s Day Wish. Get involved with A CHILD AFTER 40!

News release: http://flowerpowermom.com/press-room/

Campaign page: www.flowerpowermom.com/a-child-after-40

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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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In India, giving birth at 50+ is not uncommon

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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