MAY 2010 - 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.
Mrs Ciardi said:
Back in January I missed a period and I thought well my menopause must have arrived but when I began to feel nausea and have an upset tummy I went to the doctor.
He just smiled and said: "Your symptoms have nothing to do with the menopause - you're pregnant.
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This Pregnancy Over 40 story was found on DailyMail.co.uk
Read more: I thought it was menopause: Italian woman shocks doctors by falling pregnant aged 54 - NATURALLY
Originally posted on May 15, 2010.
TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:
by Rachel Dratch
-- Her career at a low point, Rachel Dratch suddenly had time for yoga, dog-sitting, learning Spanish - and dating.
After all, what did a forty-something single woman living in New York have to lose?
Resigned to childlessness but still hoping for romance, Dratch was out for drinks with a friend when she met John.
Handsome and funny, after only six months of dating long-distance, he became the inadvertent father of her wholly unplanned, undreamed-of child, and moved to New York to be a dad.
With riotous humor, Dratch recounts breaking the news to her bewildered parents, the awe of her single friends, and the awkwardness of a baby-care class where the instructor kept tossing out the f-word.
Filled with great behind-the-scenes anecdotes from Dratch's time on SNL, Girl Walks into a Bar is a refreshing version of the
happily ever afterstory that proves female comics - like bestsellers Tina Fey and Chelsea Handler - are truly having their moment.
📚 Paperback: 272 pages
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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 the hour-long cesarean section, and their proud mother are in good health, hospital authorities said.
This Pregnancy Over 40 story was found on MedIndia.net
Read more: 55-year-old Woman Delivers Twins in India
Originally posted on August 27, 2007
TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:
Is Your Body Baby-Friendly?:Unexplained Infertility, Miscarriage and IVF Failure - Explained
by Alan E. Beer, Julia Kantecki, Jane Reed
-- A unique book—the first of its kind. No longer do patients have to accept their infertility is
just bad luckand they just have to
keep on trying.
No longer should women with recurrent miscarriages have to listen to their doctor telling them that their loss was
God's willor that they ought to be thankful because their baby was probably chromosomally abnormal?
The statistics simply do not support such claims — in fact, they show repeated reproductive failure can be a symptom of wider health problems in the mother.
Furthermore, the root cause can be treated — not only to promote the chances of a successful pregnancy but to improve the mother's health long-term.
Paperback: 500 pagesClick to order/for more info: Is Your Body Baby-Friendly?
A 55-year-old woman who gave birth to triplets for a daughter who was medically unable to conceive said Wednesday she was
a caring incubatorand was awe-struck when she learned she was carrying three children.
Tina Cade delivered her own grandchildren — two boys and a girl — by Caesarean section Tuesday at Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital.
She served as a surrogate for her oldest daughter, Camille Hammond, and Hammond's husband, Jason.
She told NBC’s “Today” that she was
awe-struck — I could not believe itwhen the doctor told her there would be triplets.
This Pregnancy Over 40 story was found on NBCnews.com
Read more: Woman, 55, gives birth to triplet grandchildren
Originally posted on January 11th, 2005.
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TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:
Budgeting for Infertility: How to Bring Home a Baby Without Breaking the Bank
by Evelina W Sterling, Angie Best-Boss
-- Having a baby can be one of the most wonderful times of your life -- but if you need help to conceive, it can swiftly become a staggeringly expensive undertaking.
With the average cost of infertility treatments ranging from $35,000 to $85,000 in the United States (most of which is not covered by insurance companies), many women and couples find themselves having to make difficult choices about building their families.
Getting a grip on your finances is one of the few things you can do to regain control of this process. Infertility experts Evelina Weidman Sterling and Angie Best-Boss have created the ultimate guide to ensuring the most cost-effective care with the highest chances for success.
With anecdotes, interviews, and advice from both doctors and patients, you can easily apply these specific money-saving strategies to your own unique situation.
Paperback: 304 pagesClick to order/for more info: Budgeting for Infertility
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ANAHEIM – To Carolyn Pelcak, age is just a state of mind.
When she wanted to have a child at 52 years old, friends and family said she was crazy.
But now that the 55-year-old waitress and lawyer has given birth Saturday to her second child, Alexandre, she counts herself among the oldest women in Orange County to have a baby.
And the single mom is loving every minute of it.
People say, 'Oh, you must be crazy. You're old enough to be a grandmother,'Pelcak said Thursday, cradling Alexandre against her chest in her Anaheim home.
But the alternative is that these children wouldn't be born.
Pelcak always dreamed of having children. She married in 1987 when she was in her late 30s. She tried immediately to get pregnant but to no avail. In 1991, she and her husband decided to see a fertility specialist, first in Irvine and later in Glendale.
There, Dr. Charles March tried several times to artificially inseminate Pelcak, but it wasn't working. Her husband was giving up hope.
He said maybe we were too old,Pelcak said.
But I wasn't prepared to let go of my passion. I'm not someone who gives up very easily.
Meanwhile, another dream was taking root. Pelcak wanted to be a lawyer. Her co-workers at Disneyland's exclusive Club 33, where she still works, were stunned. And her doctor said she couldn't have the baby and go to law school at the same time.
I just told him, 'I want to do both. I'm sure there's a way.'
March came up with a solution: harvest Pelcak's eggs, create embryos using her husband's sperm and freeze them until she finished law school.
And that's what she did. While her embryos sat in a bank at a hospital in Century City, Pelcak spent four years at Western State University College of Law in Fullerton.
Law school took its toll. Her marriage began to crumble while her medical bills soared. Pelcak estimates she spent more than $100,000 on fertility procedures.
After graduation, she worked to pay off her bills. She and her husband separated. But her dream of a family never died.
In 1998, after she passed the bar, Pelcak tried for a baby.
First, she miscarried. The second time, the procedure didn't take. Pelcak almost gave up, but her mother said the third time's a charm.
Thank God I listened,Pelcak said.
When a pregnant Pelcak walked into Dr. E. Michael Linzey's office at St. Joseph's Hospital in Orange, the doctor was doubtful.
I had trepidation about a 52-year-old woman having a baby,said Linzey, assistant medical director of the hospital's perinatal program.
But just by getting pregnant, Pelcak had already beaten the odds. According to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, success rates for assisted reproduction drop dramatically as women age. For women under 35, more than a third of procedures result in live births. By age 41 or 42, that number drops to 10 percent.
In 2001, she gave birth to daughter Natasja through in vitro fertilization.
Her first words to Linzey while she was on the operating table:
Get ready, doc, I might have another.
And once again, she did in vitro fertilization and the baby was brought to term. But mom was beginning to show early signs of preeclampsia, a hypertensive condition which can lead to illness and death in mothers and newborns.
Six months before she got pregnant again, she told me she wanted to do this,Linzey said.
I took a deep breath and said, 'Are you sure, Carolyn?' But knowing this patient, and from everything, I could see there was no reason not to go ahead with it, so we did.
As for societal criticism, Pelcak is getting her share. Complete strangers tell her they're appalled that she would do such a thing.
But Pelcak, who has a friend to help with childcare, doesn't mind.
I put it in God's hands. If you're meant to be a mother, you will.
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TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:
Pregnancy Miracleby Lisa Olsen
-- A 279-page, instantly downloadable e-book presenting a 5-step, sure-fire, 100% guaranteed, clinically proven holistic and ancient Chinese system for permanently reversing your infertility and your partner's infertility disorders and getting pregnant quickly, naturally and safely within 2-4 months without drugs, dangerous surgeries, side effects, or expensive infertility treatments.
It's probably the most powerful infertility reversal system ever developed, and currently the best-selling e-book of its kind on the entire Web!
Here's what the author Lisa Olson had to say about her incredible program:
After 14 years of trial, error, and experimentation, I finally discovered the answer to infertility and developed a fool-proof system to getting pregnant the natural way - no drugs, or surgery necessary.
It took a lot of research to get to where I am today, to know exactly what works and what doesn't. Yes, after desperate trial and error, countless of useless treatments, disappointments, and agony, a simple holistic system opened the door to my new and much brighter life of motherhood.
I was also excited to see that my other infertility related symptoms had diminished. After years of waiting, I was finally free from Infertility! I have become a proud mother of two.
And now I'm finally revealing my secrets in this new 'encyclopedia' of pregnancy called, Pregnancy Miracle.
I will be your own personal coach, take you by the hand, and lead you through the lousy advice, hype and gimmicks... and directly to the sort of inner balance perfection that will end your battle with infertility forever and help you become a proud mother of your healthy children.
Click to order/for more info on this helpful program:
Pregnancy Miracle
Pauline Lyon Age: 63. Mother of Brodie, seven, Lauren, 11, and Lisa, 36. She is married to David, 62
When David and I got married 16 years ago, we immediately discussed having a baby to seal the marriage. I already had a child from a previous marriage and he had three children.
We tried to conceive naturally, but when nothing happened we underwent tests and decided to try IVF.
It's very emotional and splits a lot of families up, but it brought us closer together. I was 51 years old when I had Lauren and 55 years old when I had Brodie.
We went to two clinics in the UK. It took three attempts for both of them. We spent £7,500 on having Lauren and £11,000 on having Brodie, but you can't put a price on a baby.
People don't say anything now, but they did when we first had Lauren. Some were for it, some were against. There were one or two in the supermarket who thought I was Lauren's grandmother. It didn't bother me. You expect it really.
Lisa was a bit upset at first over Lauren. She was just stunned to think her mum was pregnant at the age I was. But she gets on with them really well. I do all the things other young mums do, such as the school run.
Being older you have more patience and you're better off financially. Everything else is the same. You try to do the best for your children and give them the sort of things you never had.
The only disadvantage to being an older mother is you might not be around when they're grown up. It makes me feel awful really, but you can't dwell on it. We have made provisions for them. They both have bank accounts.
They know I'm older than other mums, I've told them, but children take it in their stride. It's not a problem for them. Lauren has said she does worry sometimes about her mum dying, but she hasn't spoken about it to me.
It's lovely to wake up to them every morning. Brodie especially is very affectionate. They come into my bed and we have cuddles and kisses. It's brilliant. I wouldn't be without them.
Whatever we do, wherever we go, they're always with us. We never palm them off on other people. We like going to car boot sales, and I take them swimming occasionally and to the coast. We're like any other family.
I never feel tired. All the younger mums come up to school and stand there saying:
I'm knackered today.I never feel like that. I don't feel any different from when I was bringing up Lisa.
I'd have another one next week if we could afford it. Two years ago we went to Italy to see if the doctor who treated me would treat me again. He said he would, but then we had loads of tests and my blood pressure was a bit high.
He said if I got it down, and it was OK for three months, he would treat us. But we've just moved house so it's on hold at the moment because of the cost.
I gave up work in a circuit board factory a couple of years after I met David. I get a pension and family allowance now. David is unemployed at the moment. We'll try again if we can get the money together.
This Pregnancy Over 40 story was found on Independent.co.uk
Read more: The changing face of motherhood
Originally posted on December 2nd, 2006.
TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:
Pregnancy After 40: 40 Things No One Told You About Being Pregnant Over 40 (Pregnancy Plan Series)by Jill Conrad, Pregnancy Support Institute
-- So you're over 40 and you've decided to get pregnant. You are not alone.
A growing number of women are waiting to have a baby until they are over 40.
This book will reveal:
♥ How you can have a healthy baby in your forties (in spite of all the warnings).
♥ What the biggest risks are and what you can do about them (it may not be as bad as you think)
♥ The 3 most important things you can do to have a healthy baby after 40 (you might already be doing some of them)
♥ Why older mothers often make better parents (the surprising reason)
♥ The one thing you should do every night to keep you fertile and able to conceive naturally (it takes 5 minutes)
…and Much More!
So get started and discover how to have the safest pregnancy and the healthiest baby when you are over 40 and pregnant.
Start reading Pregnancy After 40 on your Kindle in under a minute!Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.
I've done a lot of genealogy research along with my girlfriend (on her family) and there were SO MANY natural
oopsbabies in their late forties, and early 50's.
Keep up the hope ladies!
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Hello all, I am 52 years old, and I am five months pregnant with my fourth child...
This was actually unplanned (and a big surprise because I thought it was menopause, I couldn't believe it!)
But I think that I'm adjusting fine to the fact I am getting up there (age-wise) and expecting.
Bear in mind I have a 26-year-old (with a one-year-old), a 19-year-old, and I also have a 10-year-old.
I plan to have a natural birth, but I am nervous about it.
So far the pregnancy has been fine for the most part except I have had some extreme back pain, and some heartburn as well, and I've had a lot of bed rest.
Luckily, I have a supportive husband who has always done his part and continues to do so, and my children have been very supportive.
It seems odd my newborn will be younger than his or her niece, but I think this part will be just fine.
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I can't relate to being an over 50 mom, but I'm the daughter of an over 50 mom.
I am child #7, arriving when my mom was 55 years old, and her second menopause baby!
Most of our nieces and nephews were older than us, except two were born within 8 months of me!
My sisters said what was weird was being pregnant when Mom was, and she didn't go crazy over the grandkids as much as their in-laws did.
I was so lucky to have her for 40 years after my birth, my older kids loved her sooo much.
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I didn't heed one sage piece of advice my mom gave us girls our entire life...
Honey, if the plumbing ain't yanked out, it can work
Thus, here I am pregnant at 44 years old since my plumbing was intact.
All of my sisters had a baby past 40 years old, so I'm not the only one!
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My grandmother was 51 years old when she had her last baby.
TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:
Pregnancy After 40: 40 Things No One Told You About Being Pregnant Over 40 (Pregnancy Plan Series)by Jill Conrad, Pregnancy Support Institute
-- So you're over 40 and you've decided to get pregnant. You are not alone.
A growing number of women are waiting to have a baby until they are over 40.
This book will reveal:
♥ How you can have a healthy baby in your forties (in spite of all the warnings).
♥ What the biggest risks are and what you can do about them (it may not be as bad as you think)
♥ The 3 most important things you can do to have a healthy baby after 40 (you might already be doing some of them)
♥ Why older mothers often make better parents (the surprising reason)
♥ The one thing you should do every night to keep you fertile and able to conceive naturally (it takes 5 minutes)
…and Much More!
So get started and discover how to have the safest pregnancy and the healthiest baby when you are over 40 and pregnant.
Start reading Pregnancy After 40 on your Kindle in under a minute!Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.
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Welsh farmer Elizabeth Buttle, whose maiden name is Espley, is believed to be 60 years old.
If correct, the miracle mum's age would beat the previous record birth by five years.
Checks by one British news agency at the Family Records Centre in London revealed an Elizabeth Espley was born early in 1937 in the Chester area.
Further checks revealed no-one by the same name was born between 1937 and late 1945.
No fertility drugs
Twice-married Mrs. Buttle, whose eldest grandson is 19, gave birth to new arrival Joseph David by Caesarian section at West Wales General Hospital in Carmarthen eight weeks ago.
The mother, who lives on her farm in the west Wales village of Cwmann, near Lampeter, became pregnant without the use of fertility drugs by her partner Peter Rawston, 56.
Talking about baby Joseph, Elizabeth says:
He is my little miracle and he makes me feel like a young woman again. I feel perfectly well and I don't know what the fuss is about.
There were no complications and the hospital staff were absolutely marvelous.
Baby was not planned
A widow with three grandchildren, Mrs. Buttle had a daughter in 1962 with her late husband Tom, who died 10 years ago.
New arrival Joseph, described by his mother as a
lovely, healthy little lad,was born slightly premature.
Elizabeth, who celebrates her birthday next month, said although the baby was not planned, she and her partner had taken no precautions to avoid the pregnancy.
Kathleen Campbell, of Ilkeston, Derbyshire, is entered in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest woman in the UK to give birth at the age of 55 in 1987.
This Pregnancy Over 40 story was found on News.bbc.co.uk
Read more: Gran's a mum again at 60!
Originally posted on January 15, 1998
TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:
Rewinding Your Biological Clock: Motherhood Late in Lifeby Richard J. Paulson M.D., Judith Sachs
-- In 1996, Dr. Richard Paulson assisted a 63-year-old woman to conceive using in vitro fertilization with a donor egg, and she became the oldest woman in the world to give birth.
This incredible example of how assisted reproductive technologies, or ART, can change the course of nature, raises tough biological, emotional, and ethical issues.
Rewinding Your Biological Clock is a unique exploration of each of these issues, especially the "how-to" of peri- and post-menopausal pregnancy.
Written by a leading fertility specialist and a health educator, this original and daring book rethinks society's most fundamental beliefs about motherhood, aging, and life itself.
Paperback: 356 pagesClick to order/for more info: Rewinding Your Biological Clock
Hello all, My name is Lisa, and I am 55 years old.
I needed to join this board because I really hope to be an inspiration for women trying to conceive at later ages.
Two weeks ago, I found out I am expecting my sixth child, and I am now at 8 weeks pregnant.
I went in to see my doctor because I had not been feeling well.
I was getting frequent headaches and lower back pain, along with some queasiness.
So I went in to make sure things were OK, and my doctor told me I was actually expecting!
I will be 56 years old when this baby is born, and I do plan to have a natural birth.
I have four older children - ages 17, 23, 26, and 28 years old - and I also have a five-year-old.
My five-year-old was actually planned, born when I was 50 years old.
My husband and I had wanted one more little one.
But I guess she was not supposed to be the last!
I also have two grandchildren.
My 28-year-old daughter has a four-year-old, and she and I were both preggo around the same time, which was pretty exciting.
And my 26-year-old son has a three-year-old.
So I am a grandmother as well.
I have seen a few others on this board expecting after 50, and I hope if anyone out there is trying to conceive at an older age, they do not give up!
And congrats to all the expectant mothers out there!
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Congrats on your new found pregnancy!
I am also in my fifties (54 years old), and expecting my fourth baby in late July.
I have a 16-year-old, a 20-year-old and a 26-year-old.
And I too have two grandchildren!
It's is always exciting to hear stories I can relate to, and hopefully, be an encouragement!
I wish you all luck, and I will keep you in my prayers!
TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:
Eat, Love, Get Pregnant: A Couple's Guide To Boosting Fertility and Having A Healthy Babyby Karen Daniels
--
A breakthrough revolutionary plan for getting pregnant fast, solving common fertility problems and having a healthy baby – this is NOT your average book on getting pregnant!
Renowned fertility expert Dr. Niels Lauersen and women's wellness expert Colette Bouchez help readers take charge of their fertility with a revolutionary new self-help plan designed to show couples how to work together to boost their conception odds, plan for a healthy pregnancy, and get pregnant faster – all without the use of expensive fertility treatments or medications.
Based on scientific research and tested on thousands of couples Eat-Love-GET PREGNANT is a simple yet revolutionary plan that provides the quintessential
missing linkabsent from most other fertility programs.
Namely, the importance of not only boosting both male and female fertility simultaneously, but bold new evidence showing how, when couples work together in certain special and unique ways, they can create a unified
fertility power booststrong enough to take them from infertile to fertile in as little as three months
Paperback: 116 pagesClick to order/for more info: Eat, Love, Get Pregnant
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September 04, 2008 - Sure, she is perhaps the most storied celebrity photographer working today.
But she's all about her three girls.
Legendary portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz gave birth to a daughter, Sarah, in 2001, when she was 51 years old - with the help of donated sperm.
Daughters Susan and Samuelle were born to a surrogate in 2005, a year after the death of Leibovitz's longtime partner, Susan Sontag.
This Pregnancy Over 40 story was found on TheDailyBeast.com
Originally posted in September 04, 2008.
TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:
Pregnancy Miracleby Lisa Olsen
-- A 279-page, instantly downloadable e-book presenting a 5-step, sure-fire, 100% guaranteed, clinically proven holistic and ancient Chinese system for permanently reversing your infertility and your partner's infertility disorders and getting pregnant quickly, naturally and safely within 2-4 months without drugs, dangerous surgeries, side effects, or expensive infertility treatments.
It's probably the most powerful infertility reversal system ever developed, and currently the best-selling e-book of its kind on the entire Web!
Here's what the author Lisa Olson had to say about her incredible program:
After 14 years of trial, error, and experimentation, I finally discovered the answer to infertility and developed a fool-proof system to getting pregnant the natural way - no drugs, or surgery necessary.
It took a lot of research to get to where I am today, to know exactly what works and what doesn't. Yes, after desperate trial and error, countless of useless treatments, disappointments, and agony, a simple holistic system opened the door to my new and much brighter life of motherhood.
I was also excited to see that my other infertility related symptoms had diminished. After years of waiting, I was finally free from Infertility! I have become a proud mother of two.
And now I'm finally revealing my secrets in this new 'encyclopedia' of pregnancy called, Pregnancy Miracle.
I will be your own personal coach, take you by the hand, and lead you through the lousy advice, hype and gimmicks... and directly to the sort of inner balance perfection that will end your battle with infertility forever and help you become a proud mother of your healthy children.
Click to order/for more info on this helpful program:
Pregnancy Miracle
July 4, 1932 - Having given birth to her first child at 55 years and 69 days, Mrs. Mary Higgins of Cord, Ireland bids fair to win the prize offered by a London newspaper for information as to the
oldest motherin the last 20 years.
Thus far, the runner-up is Mrs. Elizabeth Pierce of Bitterne, Southampton, whose youngest child was born when she was 54 years and 40 days.
The paper calls attention to an old announcement in the Royal Cornwall Gazette of January 2, 1819, reporting the birth of twins on Christmas Eve, to Mrs. George Saunders, wife of a London shoemaker in her 59th year.
This Pregnancy Over 40 story was found on The Toledo News-Bee
Read more: Mary Higgins has baby at 55
Originally posted in July 4, 1932.
TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:
What Every Woman Should Know About Fertility and Her Biological Clockby Cara Birrittieri
-- Until now, there has been little practical advice on what women can do about ticking biological clocks.
What Every Woman Should Know About Her Biological Clock is the first book to explore a woman's reproductive lifespan completely, from beginning to end.
Based on Cara Birrittieri's own experience of running up against a slowing biological clock, she shows women for the first time how to
tell what time it iswith a simple blood test giving them a peek at the state of their ovaries.
Paperback: 224 pagesClick to order/for more info: What Every Woman Should Know About Fertility and Her Biological Clock
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The whole thing started when she was 48 years old and found the first baby, a little girl when she was out collecting rubbish.
The baby was just lying amongst the junk on the street, abandoned. The baby would have died had the woman not rescued her and taken her in.
Lou Xiaoying, now 88 years old and suffering from kidney failure, found and raised more than 30 abandoned Chinese babies from the streets of Jinhua, in the eastern Zhejiang province where she managed to make a living by recycling rubbish.
She and her late husband Li Zin, who died 17 years ago, kept four of the children and passed the others onto friends and family to start new lives.
Her youngest son Zhang Qilin - now aged just seven years old - was found in a dustbin by Lou when she was 82 years old.
Even though I was already getting old I could not simply ignore the baby and leave him to die in the trash. He looked so sweet and so needy. I had to take him home with me,she said.
I took him back to our home, which is a very small modest house in the countryside and nursed him to health. He is now a thriving little boy, who is happy and healthy.
Read more: The truly inspiring story of the Chinese rubbish collector who saved and raised THIRTY babies abandoned at the roadside
TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:
50 Things You Can Do Today to Increase Your Fertilityby Sally Lewis and Nim Barnes
-- Practical advice and a holistic approach to help you conceive, including simple dietary and lifestyle changes and do it yourself complementary therapies.
In this accessible and informative guide, Sally Lewis explains how age, sexual infections, diet, excess weight, stress, and anxiety affect fertility.
Teaching how to discover the best time for conception; understand the link between body, mind, and fertility; and manage stress and relax to prevent anxiety, this is the ultimate guide to increasing the likelihood of conception at any age.
Paperback: 128 pagesClick to order/for more info: 50 Things You Can Do Today to Increase Your Fertility
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Hey... I am still shaking at the sight of the second pink line...Here is some new hope for anyone, who like me - had given up TTC [trying to conceive] last month.
I tried Acupuncture, Clomid, every vitamin regiment on this site I read about, all of it.
Then after 18 months of this - and at the ripe old age of 47 years old, I decided I was beating my head against a wall.
I decided to be grateful for the kids and the life I had.
I lost 14 pounds, and ate and exercised like I loved myself more than anything... and whamo!
Just when I am looking at skin tight shorts and tops for the summer... BFP [big fat positive - pregnancy test]
You couldn't wipe the grin off my face for anything...
Thanks to all of you for all the words of wisdom and information you all share with each other, it has been so helpful.
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Her name was Margaret Krasiowa.
She was born in Konin, Poland, in the year 1655, and died in 1763 at the age of 108 completed years.
At 94 years old, she married her third husband, who was then 105 years old.
During the 14 years they lived together, she bore him two boys and a girl.
This scenario, if true, represents probably the most fascinating documented case of childbearing at older maternal age.
Before the time of Margaret Krasiowa and even in our contemporary world, childbearing beyond the maternal age of 50 years has been a source of curiosity frequently punctuated with disbelief because of its rarity.
Although extremely rare, women can naturally continue bearing children even beyond the age of 50 years.
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Previously, the reported age of women was truncated and documented as 49 years old on US public-access national natality files if they were 50 years old or older.
The decision of the National Centre for Health Statistics in 1997 to start recording on vital record files the actual age of pregnant women aged 50-54 years provided a unique opportunity to examine the magnitude of fetal morbidity and mortality in this age group of mothers.
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Of 12,066,854 deliveries resulting in live births or fetal deaths in the United States between 1997-1999 inclusive, 539 were to women aged 50 and older (four per 100,000).
The socio-demographic characteristics of pregnant women achieving pregnancy at 50 years and older are summarized in
TABLE1and compared with the other age groups.
Older mothers belonged to three broad racial groups.
The overwhelming majority of them were white, with Asian or Pacific Islanders (the main component of the group denoted as other) and black women constituting the rest.
Whereas the proportion of blacks among pregnant mothers declined with advancing age, Asian and Pacific Islanders increased.
Primiparity showed a roughly U-shaped pattern, being most frequent in the 20-29 age group, with a trough at the 40-49 age category, and another modest increase at 50 years and older.
Great grand multiparity was most frequent among older mothers, twice the frequency in the 40-49-year-old group.
The majority of women aged at least 50 years were married, had received at least 12 years of education, but surprisingly, only about half of them could be described as having utilized prenatal care services adequately.
For cases where information was available, smoking and alcohol ingestion during pregnancy were relatively rare habits among older pregnant women in comparison with younger mothers.
Multiple gestations, on the other hand, were most frequent among 50-year-old mothers, comprising about one-third of all deliveries in this age group.
This rate for multiple pregnancies was seven times that of 40-year-olds.
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Thought I would share with you my experience tonight - meeting a woman who was 48 years old when she had her twin boys.
My husband and I went to the mall this evening, so I could get my glasses fixed, and let my little guy get tuckered out at the indoor playground.
Well, my son was roughhousing with this other little boy, and I went to chat with him when the child's mother came up to me.
We started chatting and she noticed I was pregnant and asked me when I was due etc...
Anyway, she told me she had her twins at 48 years old!!
She and her husband are married for 23 years, and tried and tried.
But finally, they both resolved themselves to be without children.
When low and behold, she found out she was pregnant at 48 years old!
They love their little guys, had no evasive testing done when she was pregnant and were shocked to find out they were having twins.
TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:
The Infertility Cure: The Ancient Chinese Wellness Program for Getting Pregnant and Having Healthy Babiesby Randine Lewis
-- Infertility affects one out of six couples today.
Dr. Lewis presents a groundbreaking alternative approach to infertility, explaining how she used traditional Chinese medicine to treat her own infertility, successfully conceiving and giving birth to two children.
In Lewis's experience, women who have undergone three to six months of the dietary changes, herbs and acupuncture treatments become pregnant with no further effort.
Lewis intersperses her somewhat technical examination of the program with anecdotes about her patients, weaving in discussions on diet, herbal supplements, acupuncture, older women and problems related to infertility.
Paperback: 320 pagesClick to order/for more info: The Infertility Cure
My friend had her first baby at 45 tears old, conceived without medical assistance.
A relative of my husband was the oldest woman ever to give birth at our local maternity hospital aged 49, again conceived naturally.
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One of my college roommates had her one and only baby quite late….
A result of waiting for the right moment to come, as well as unfortunate circumstances...
She is now almost 50 years old, and her daughter is 4 1/2 years old...
Technically she is old enough to be a grandmother!
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My mother had her last healthy baby at 45 years old, and her last pregnancy at 47 years old!
I have friends who had babies in their 40s - one started at 42 years old, and had three babies, one year after the other (all normal and healthy).
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I am 43 years old and am 35 weeks pregnant with our first child.
I was quite fit and healthy at the beginning of the pregnancy, and this has stayed with me throughout.
On the scale of things, I have had a lovely pregnancy so far: just occasional nausea in the first trimester, one night of acid reflux in the second trimester, and a week of leg cramps in the third trimester.
I am as anxious as any other first-timer but more grounded than ever before in myself.
I love my husband and we're both delighted to be having a baby. His support means everything right now.
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I don't think you are old at 43 years old.
My God, my friend's mum had her last baby at 55 years old, and that is the honest truth.
She had a beautiful baby girl, and both of them were very healthy.
Then my younger friend had a Down Syndrome baby, and she was only 20 years old when her baby was born.
So please, I really don’t believe in this **** about the older you are, the sicker your child can be.
TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:
50 Things You Can Do Today to Increase Your Fertilityby Sally Lewis and Nim Barnes
-- Practical advice and a holistic approach to help you conceive, including simple dietary and lifestyle changes and do it yourself complementary therapies.
In this accessible and informative guide, Sally Lewis explains how age, sexual infections, diet, excess weight, stress, and anxiety affect fertility.
Teaching how to discover the best time for conception; understand the link between body, mind, and fertility; and manage stress and relax to prevent anxiety, this is the ultimate guide to increasing the likelihood of conception at any age.
Paperback: 128 pagesClick to order/for more info: 50 Things You Can Do Today to Increase Your Fertility
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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 had hours of pleasure from.
Both the Mason kids have a light sabre, and they've recently been to a dress-up Star Wars disco at Hukanui Primary.
Some big people were dressed up in Star Wars costumes,says Dean.
They looked real.
Dean and Celine cuddle up to their mother Lyn for a photograph in their pleasant home in Hamilton's northern suburbs. The years since they were born seemed to have flashed by, and yesterday Celine celebrated her sixth birthday.
There's nothing particularly remarkable about that. Except that Lyn was 55 when she gave birth to her daughter, and 53 when she had Dean.
Lyn made history as New Zealand's oldest mother, and both children were conceived by in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), with their father Ian's sperm and donor eggs from a family friend.
Although several women overseas have been reported to have given birth in their 50s, 60s and 70s, to the best of everyone's knowledge, Lyn holds the New Zealand record.
This Pregnancy Over 40 story was found on Stuff.co.nz
Read more: Sandwich generation - it's no picnic
Originally posted on July 01, 2012.
TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:
The Empty Picture Frame: An Inconceivable Journey Through Infertilityby Jenna Currier Nadeau, Mike Nadeau
-- What has amazed me over the last four years is the ability for every person who learns about our struggle to provide us with the most well-intentioned, yet inane advice possible.
Have you tried timing intercourse?
I've heard yoga can help- and of course the knife in the heart,
If you stop trying, you'll be amazed at how quickly it'll happen. Just relax.
No offense to the fertiles of the world, but just because you have a child doesn't mean you have any idea how it got here. I'm sure in your 8th grade science class you learned of fallopian tubes, ovulation, sperm, ovaries, and you might even have been witness to the frightening movie where the mother screams as the baby is being delivered in a horrifying display of excruciating rips and tears.
I'm sure you might have even been scared when you heard that a woman could get pregnant anytime, and that's why protection was crucial.
What you probably weren't told was that a fertile couple only has a 20% chance of getting pregnant in any one month, and that more often the window of opportunity isn't 28 days, but closer to 48 hours.
You probably missed the part of the lesson that explained how the thickness of the endometrial lining had to be a certain number of millimeters, and that how much fat your body was made of actually played a considerable role in the whole process.
The body is a remarkable thing, and can compensate for many imperfections, and for most people it is forgiving of the slightly tilted uterus, or a semi-closed fallopian tube, a weaker quality egg, or a few extra pounds.
But for the millions of other women in the world, conceiving a baby is a process that is truly a miracle; a precise combination of old fashioned faith and the most modern medical technologies.
Infertility is a disease that affects over 6 million people in the United States alone. What that statistic fails to consider are the people who are affected by those millions of infertiles; the people who don't know what to say or how to act.
These people can't conceive of the inconceivable because they have not faced infertility or they have not had desire to raise children. On both sides of the disease are people who feel helpless; unable to fix the problem and incapable of eliminating the pain.
By picking up this book, you are opening a door to the life of an infertile. The journey of my husband and I may not be exactly that of your loved one, but I can assure you the worries, decisions, pain and frustration will be similar.
Read these words and you may be able to view your infertile loved one in a new light, and with that light you may understand and empathize with their struggle.
It is my hope that infertiles reading this will find solace in the words of a fellow veteran of this disease. You won't hear me suggest that there is a sure fire method to fixing the problem. I don't necessarily believe that in the end everything will work out as it should.
What you will hear is my deepest admiration for the path you are on. Perhaps you will find comfort in the words of an infertile couple who has been to hell and back, and has the bruises, both literal and figurative, to prove it.
Paperback: 196 pagesClick to order/for more info: The Empty Picture Frame
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