After 30 years of marriage, 3 husbands, woman gives birth at 52

After almost three decades of marriage, spent in the harrowing embrace of barrenness, and with three husbands, 52-year-old Alhaja Owolabi Kareem against all odds and human expectations not only got pregnant, but also gave birth to a bouncing baby girl.For the couple, Alhaji and Alhaja Owolabi Kareem of Ajah in the Eti Osa Local Government Area Lagos State, November 26, 2010 will forever be remembered as a day of celebration of miracles. It was the day on which the 52-year-old Alhaja Owolabi Kareem put to bed a bouncing baby girl. It was the first in her life.Like most women of her age, Alhaja...

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43y mom thought she had started menopause

A 43 year old Madrid woman has given birth to her fourth child while in the toilets of the Law Faculty of the UNED University in Madrid, where she works, and says she did not even know she was pregnant.She had thought that she had started the menopause.Two of her work colleagues helped her and called SAMUR health professionals to the scene on Monday at 11am.The baby girl weighed 1.96 kilos, and mother and baby are now both doing well in the Gregario Marañón Hospital.SourceLife Begins... - Miscarriage stories of loss, hope & helpPregnancy Stories by Age - Daily blog of hope & inspiration!You...

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I'm 58... and having twins

At 29 weeks pregnant with twins, Carole Hobson is — like most expectant first-time mothers — a mixture of ­nervous excitement and apprehension. This, she admits, has been a difficult pregnancy, and it will be a relief when her babies are born, hopefully healthy and well.Carole has suffered severe morning sickness, painful swelling of her legs and, most recently, dangerously high blood pressure. This week she was hospitalized for five days, and she has been warned by medical staff that the twins — not due until February 23 — could arrive any day.She has been injected with steroids to help her babies’...

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When I’m 64 – I’ll have my first child

A pensioner from Canton Aargau has given birth to her first child – at the age of 64. This makes her the oldest mother in Switzerland.Mother and daughter, who is now four-and-a-half months old, are both well and on Tuesday appeared on the front page of Swiss tabloid Blick.The woman, whose husband is 60, had a miscarriage when she was 61 and three years later decided to try again. According to Blick, she went for an examination in Italy and then traveled to Russia where she received an egg from a donor. This is illegal in both Switzerland and Italy.“When you harbour a wish so deeply, you must fulfill...

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IVF helps 55-year-old give birth to a son

Stock photo by girinathA 55-year-old woman from Dhule gave birth to a baby boy on Tuesday morning at the Origin Fertility Centre in Thane through in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Shobha Joshi and her husband Vidyadhar (54) had the baby after nearly 35 years of married life.The couple from Dhule had come to Thane after seeing a newspaper article on Thane's first surrogate child.The Joshi's made an arduous yet hopeful journey from Dhule to the fertility clinic at Hiranandani Meadows in August last year."When the couple approached us, we were in a dilemma because of the age factor. But at the same time,...

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Mom, 66, delivers triplets

Bhateri Devi, 66, wanted to be a mother all her life. And now she finally is - three times over. Devi, who is now thought to hold the title for the oldest mother of triplets in the world, gave birth recently after undergoing in vitro fertilization treatments at a well-known fertility center in India.How soon Devi and her husband of 44 years will be able to take their children home is yet to be determined. The health of the two boys and one girl remains precarious. At only 1.077 kilograms, 1.02 kilograms and 0.651 kilograms, they are seriously underweight and are being monitored in the intensive...

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Woman gives birth to twins at 57

A 57-YEAR-OLD woman, believed to be the oldest mother to give birth in Australia, has delivered IVF twins.The Sunday Herald Sun can reveal the woman gave birth by caesarean section on Monday at King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth.The case is believed to have set an Australian record.Sources said the woman, who is believed to be from India, had IVF treatment with donated eggs in India before delivering twins in Perth this week.She is understood to have spent the duration of her pregnancy in WA and was accompanied by a man, believed to be her husband.Read moreLife Begins... - Miscarriage stories...

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For the love of kids

New Zealand's oldest mother, Lyn Mason, and her husband Ian tell Denise Irvine how they cope with their young family and other people's curiosity.It's a few days before Celine Mason's birthday, and when asked what she'd like as a present, she replies promptly, "a little pony".This is not of the four-legged, ride-on variety, but the brand of My Little Pony toys popular with girls, and Celine would like to add another one to her collection. She fishes in the toy cupboard and shows some of her favourites.Big brother Dean, 8, had his birthday in July, and he got a Star Wars Lego set that he's obviously...

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Almost 50 and I Want to Get Pregnant

As I checked out a tall, slim man in his thirties with salt and pepper hair at a Greenwich Village party, a lady astrologist a couple of years older than moi looked my way and said, "When we get to this age, we lose interest in men." I assume she believed I would agree with her reading of the situation, but I, a divorced, almost forty-nine-year old Jewish female from New York City, still have a seventy-year-old aunt who dates. I also contemplated how we women "peak" sexually in our forties, but I am one year away from, gulp, fifty. And the thing is, I want to be pregnant again. I already have...

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Karen Johnston, 54, gave birth to twins

'I went through the menopause six years ago and was too old for fertility treatment in the UK 'Karen Johnston, 54, gave birth to twins Asa and Imogen 13 weeks prematurely in March. She lives in Bicester, Oxfordshire, with husband Roger, 55, a former Army sergeant who now works for a car manufacturer. The couple have eight other children — Daniel, 33, Jemma, 28, Scott, 27, Amy, 26, Aiden, 17, Bethany, 14, Joseph, 13, and Willow, two. Karen says:Having had children in my 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s, I honestly think the best age is your 30s.In my 20s I felt torn between my children and wanting to socialise...

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Mandy Parry, 46, 7 cycles of IVF, 5 attempts at donor egg insemination

'We followed seven cycles of IVF and five attempts at donor egg insemination'Mandy Parry, 46, is a teacher and lives in Bristol with husband Mark, 47, a community safety officer, and their five-month-old daughter Violet. Mandy says:Having been through seven years of gruelling, heartbreaking fertility treatment, I’d urge any women thinking about delaying motherhood not to, for their own sakes.I’d have loved children in my early 30s but I didn’t meet the right man, Mark, until I was 39.When we started trying for a family six months later I kept miscarrying and discovered that my eggs were no longer...

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66-year-old gives birth to triplets in Haryana

After nearly 44 years of a childless married life, a 66-year-old woman in Haryana has given birth to triplets, becoming possibly the oldest woman to do so.Bhateri Devi gave birth to the triplets – two boys and a girl – May 29 at National Fertility Centre here through In-vitro Fertilisation (IVF) technique, officials at the centre said Sunday, adding she was possibly the oldest known mother in the world to give birth to triplets.“According to the birth certificate issued by a government hospital in Rohtak district, Bhateri Devi was born on May 21, 1944 in Madina village of Rohtak. This birth proof...

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New mother, 58, in Kerala

Stock photo by maqfanA 58-year-old woman has given birth to a baby boy in Kerala. While the mother and child are doing well in a hospital in Muvattupuzha.She could have been a grandmother, but at 58 Cicily has just given birth to a baby boy.Having lost her two children to an illness and an accident, Cicily had been craving for a child. With age not on her side, she had to rely on IVF treatment, with eggs from a donor and pregnancy related hormones in order to conceive."God has given me a child in this old age. I am extremely happy and thank the doctor," said Cicily, the mother.Read more...Life...

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Becoming a 63 Year Old Mom

Stock photo by just4youOn April 23 1997, it was announced that a woman, who had no children and was married to a 60 year old husband, had successfully undergone a delivery of a 6 pound 4 ounce baby girl after an in vitro fertilization and frozen embryo transfer.Though the assisted reproduction program where the transfer and followup was done had set age 55 as the maximum age for the procedure, it appeared that the woman represented herself as 10 years younger than her real age. After she became pregnant did she admit she was 63 years old.Read more...Life Begins... - Miscarriage stories of loss,...

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60-Year-Old Single Japanese Woman Gives Birth from Donated Egg

Stock photo by ericanflyA 60-year-old woman impregnated in the United States via in-vitro fertilization will become what is believed to be the oldest single mother in Japan to give birth from a donated egg, medical officials say.The woman, whose name is being withheld by officials because of privacy concerns, recently found an obstetrician willing to handle her case 15 weeks into her pregnancy after being rejected by other clinics, her doctor said Wednesday.Read more...Life Begins... - Miscarriage stories of loss, hope & helpPregnancy Stories by Age - Daily blog of hope & inspiration!You...

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59-year-old Woman Gives Birth To Triplets

A 59-year-old woman in France gave birth to triplets after going abroad to get donated eggs. The woman gave birth last weekend by Caesarean section.The Paris public hospital network says the triplets are two boys and a girl, weighed between 2.09-kg and 2.4-kg and measured between 46-cm and 47-cm.However, the identity of the woman was kept as secret because the official at the Paris hospital network was not authorized to give more information about the mother and the newborn babies.Read more...Life Begins... - Miscarriage stories of loss, hope & helpPregnancy Stories by Age - Daily blog of...

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60-year-old Chinese woman gives birth to two healthy girls

BEIJING (BNO NEWS) — A 60-year-old retired woman has given birth to two baby girls in east China, according to state-run media on Thursday, making her the country’s oldest mother on record.The girls were born prematurely in a hospital in Hefei, the capital of East China’s Anhui province, on Tuesday, 34 weeks after the unidentified woman successfully received in-vitro fertilization (IVF). She was only identified as Cheng Lin, a pseudonym.Read more...Life Begins... - Miscarriage stories of loss, hope & helpPregnancy Stories by Age - Daily blog of hope & inspiration!You Can Get Pregnant in...

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John Travolta and Kelly Preston, 47, Are Expecting!

Great news for the Travolta family!John Travolta's wife Kelly Preston, 47, is expecting.The Hollywood couple made their announcement on both of their websites Tuesday:"It's impossible to keep a secret...especially one as wonderful as this," the message reads."We want to be the first to share this great news with everyone that we are expecting a new addition to the our family."The message is signed "John, Kelly and Ella."Travolta, 56, and Preston have a 10-year-old daughter, Ella Bleu. In January 2009, their 16-year-old son Jett tragically died of a seizure. "We've been working very hard every...

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Bulgarian Psychiatrist Becomes Mother at 62

Krasimira Dimitrova, a 62-year-old from the Northen Bulgarian city of Ruse, has become one of the oldest mothers in the world after giving birth to twins.Dimitrova has become Bulgaria's oldest first-time mother by giving birth to twins. Mary and Jacqueline, following an embryo transfer.The twins are in good health despite being born prematurely and only weighing less than 1 kilogram each, local doctors reported.Her pregnancy was the result of an embryo transfer, Dimitrova told the Bulgarian 24 Chasa newspaper in an interview, adding that she was initially impregnated with triplets but doctors...

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Holly Martin, 45, gave birth to a healthy baby

Another patient of Dr. Winslow’s, Holly Martin*, age 45, conceived after treatment and gave birth to a healthy baby. Holly says, “We went through a lot to have this baby.” Holly and her husband began trying to conceive when Holly was 38. When the couple first went to see Dr. Winslow, he tested both of them, standard procedure to determine the cause of infertility. As the cause was not absolutely determined at this point, Dr. Winslow put Holly on the maximum dosage of follicle stimulating hormone, the strongest drug given for stimulation of ovulation.Dr. Winslow explained the egg donor program...

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55-year-old Woman Delivers Twins in India

August 27, 2007 - For a long, long time she had been longing for a child. And menopause had overtaken her. Still she would not give up. She feels doubly rewarded now, literally.On Monday morning, 55-year-old Brinda became the proud mother of two. Her twins were delivered at a fertility clinic in Chennai, a south Indian city. She is now probably the oldest woman in India to deliver twins.Both the baby boys, delivered during hour-long caesarean section, and their proud mother are in good health, hospital authorities say.Read more...Life Begins... - Miscarriage stories of loss, hope & helpPregnancy...

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'I thought it was menopause': Italian woman shocks doctors by falling pregnant aged 54 - NATURALLY

A 54-year-old Italian woman has amazed doctors and herself by falling pregnant naturally.Hospital worker Giovanni Ciardi is one of only a handful of women to have become pregnant without medical treatment in their 50s.Doctors have described her as an 'exceptional case'. Mrs Ciardi is 15 weeks pregnant. She is due to give birth to a girl in November - by which time she will be 55 years old.She already has a 23-year-old daughter called Veronica through her first marriage.Read more...Life Begins... - Miscarriage stories of loss, hope & helpPregnancy Stories by Age - Daily blog of hope & inspiration!You...

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