Oops! baby at 45
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Their family was about to have a new addition.
No, it wasn't a new bathroom or bedroom or a new car, the girls discovered.
Instead, in just about five months, they would have a new baby brother.
It was a stunning shock when we found out,Randy said.
There was a nine-year gap there.
Randy and Doris had found themselves, at ages 45 and 44, the parents-to-be of an unplanned child, or what some refer to as an
Accidentalor
Oops!baby.
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Originally posted on November 9, 2008.
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My one brother-in-law age 56 has a young brother age 36. Both their parents are dead; so the occasional times when the younger brother is together with the elder and my sister, and they meet up with a stranger my brother-in-law introduces his brother: "Hi, this this my wife and my brother. I wonder if the brother realizes he was an "oops" and how the parents talked about it with him. Did he have negative feelings? Is there, often, uneasiness toward his parents?