Pregnant at 46 - I found out that I was pregnant
Pregnant at 46 - I found out that I was pregnant 4 days ago, and am still in shock. I went off the pill to get a check for menopause... I guess I failed the menopause test. I am scared to death, I have 3 children 17, 14, and 11..... I am trying to get over the shock. I wondered how common it is to become pregnant at 46 and what to expect from a pregnancy at this time in my life?
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According to Guinness World Records 2001, the highest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev (1707-1782) of Shuya, Russia. Between 1725 and 1765 [18-58y old], in a total of 27 confinements, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets. 67 of them survived infancy.
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This is one of the reasons of increasing amount of twins’ birth – a worldwide tendency to late deliveries. A probability of birth of two and more babies increases, if a mother is older than 35 years. (By the way, this chance increases even more after 50 years).
The matter is that with age, ovulations take place not during each cycle – and this is quite normal. As a result, free hormones, affecting ovulation, accumulate and release during the following cycle, stimulating coming out of several ovules at once.
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In 1999 however, twin birth rates rose steadily with maternal age and were highest for women aged 50-54 years. Since 1990, the twin birth rate has risen 80 percent among women 40-44 years of age (from 24.7 to 44.5 per 1,000), and almost 600 percent among women aged 45-49 years (from 23.8 to 155.7), compared to only a 6 percent rise for women under age 20 years (14.3 to 15.2).
Comparable trend data are not available for women aged 50-54 years, but in 1999 more than a third of births (34 percent) to women in the oldest age group were born in a twin delivery.
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Oldest Mother of Twins - 58-years-old Samira Ellis of Israel had twins Elias and Solva on March 8, 2003
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You Can Get Pregnant in Your 40's
Category: 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56+
Hi there,
What a blessing to be pregnant at 46 years old. So many women pray that they could be in your shoes. I was recently pregnant with twins and miscarried. We will try again and hope for another miracle. T