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HRT triggered pregnancy in world's oldest mum

Catherine | Monday, January 23, 2012 | 0 comments

When Dawn Brooke became the world's oldest natural mother at 59 it left doctors with a mystery to solve.

How was it possible for the British housewife, who was well beyond the average age for the menopause of 51 and was not having any fertility treatment, to produce the egg that allowed her to conceive?

Now the Daily Mail can reveal that Mrs Brooke, who gave birth to a healthy son, Harry, was on hormone replacement therapy when she conceived.

This, the experts believe, may have led to the astonishing pregnancy and birth in 1997 - which the family kept secret for a decade.

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Sadly we lost that precious baby at 8 weeks, and decided to try again. Five more losses, turned down for donor egg, foster care and adoption due to my age and losses - we have accepted that there will be no more babies in our house.

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