Pregnancy over age 50

Pregnancy over age 50 has become more possible for women, due to recent advances in assisted reproductive technology, in particular egg donation. Typically, a woman's fecundity ends with menopause, which by definition is 12 consecutive months without having had a period. Perimenopause usually begins between ages 40 and 51 and fertility can and often does end at this stage also. This is when the periods become irregular and eventually stop altogether, but even when periods are still regular, the egg quality of women in their forties is typically dramatically lower than in younger women, making the likelihood of conceiving a healthy baby also dramatically lower, particularly after age 42. Men, in contrast, generally remain fertile throughout their lives, although the risk of genetic defects is greatly increased due to the paternal age effect. Other sources claim that men might experience a decline in fertility starting in their late 30s.

In the United States, between 1997 and 1999, 539 births were reported among mothers over age 50, with 194 being over 55. According to statistics from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, in the Britain, more than 20 babies are born to women over age 50 per year through in-vitro fertilization with the use of donor oocytes (eggs).

Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara is the oldest verified mother; she was aged 66 years 358 days when she gave birth to twins; she was 130 days older than Adriana Iliescu, who gave birth in 2005 to a baby girl. The children were conceived through IVF with donor eggs. The oldest verified mother to conceive naturally (listed currently in the Guinness Records) is Dawn Brooke (UK); she conceived a son at the age of 59 years in 1997 while taking oestrogen.

Medical considerations

The risk of pregnancy complications increases as the mother's age increases. Risks associated with childbearing over the age of 50 include an increased incidence of gestational diabetes, hypertension, delivery by caesarean section, miscarriage, preeclampsia, and placenta previa. In comparison to mothers between 20 and 29 years of age, mothers over 50 are at almost three times the risk of low birth weight, premature birth, and extremely premature birth; their risk of extremely low birth weight, small size for gestational age, and fetal mortality was almost double.

Cases of pregnancy over 50

Facts about the conception of pregnancies in this age group can be difficult to determine, but they are nearly always due to the use of IVF with donor eggs. Although many claims, both present and historical, exist about pregnancies at very advanced ages, most of these have not been verified.

Age of mother	Date	Mother	Father	Nature of Conception	Country	Notes
7001500000000000000 50 years	1899 1899	Bitzis Pooley, GeorgiaGeorgia Bitzis Pooley	Her husband	Natural Conception	United States United States	Georgia Bitzis Pooley, the first known Greek woman to immigrate to Chicago, Illinois, gave birth to her last child in 1899 at the age of 50, having conceived naturally.
7001500000000000000 50 years	1960 1960	Madame L. !Madame L.	Her husband	Natural Conception	Ukraine Ukraine	The 'Book of Records of Ukraine. Man and Society. In the world of science and technology' by Matsenko G.O., reports, at page 18, the case of Mrs. L., a resident of Pidvolochysk, Ternopil oblast, south-east of the country, happy to have had a baby at age 50.
7001500000000000000 50 years	1996-07 July 1996	Bershak, JudyJudy Bershak	David Cook, her 31-year-old husband, General Attorney Assistant of California	IVF with oocytes donation	United States United States	Judy Bershak of Los Angeles, California, gave birth to her first child, daughter Sarah, in 1996 at the age of 50. Bershak got married at the age of 44, and after failing in conceiving naturally and adopting, she went through IVF treatment with oocyte donation and became pregnant after first attempt.
7001500000000000000 50 years	1997-02-20 February 1997	Fillippini, CherylCheryl Fillippini	Robert Fillippini, her 49-year-old husband	IVF	United States United States	Cheryl Fillippini of Lompoc, California, gave birth to quadruplets, three girls, Rebecca, Amanda, and Sydney, and a boy, Robert, on February 20, 1997, by Caesarean section, in Santa Barbara, at the age of 50, after IVF treatment. Fillippini and her husband had 10 children altogether from their previous marriages, but wanted to have a child together.
7001500000000000000 50 years	2010-05-22 May 2010	Parisi, Heather ElizabethHeather Elizabeth Parisi	Umberto Maria Unzollin, her 42-year-old third husband, contractor	Natural conception	Italy Italy	Heather Elizabeth Parisi, Italian-American singer and actress, already mother of two daughters of her previous unions, Rebecca Jewel Manenti, 16, and Jacqueline Lune di Giacomo, 10, gave birth on May 22, 2010, in Vicenza, Italy, to twin girls, Elizabeth Jaden and Dylan Maria, naturally conceived with her 42-year-old third husband contractor, Umberto Maria Unzollin.
7001500000000000000 50 years	2010-06 June 2010	Krupenik, SvetlanaSvetlana Krupenik	Her 62-year-old husband	IVF	Ukraine Ukraine	Svetlana Krupenik gave birth to a girl in Kiev, Ukraine, in June 2010, at the age of 50, after IVF treatment. She and her 62-year-old husband were trying to conceive for 30 years.
7001500000000000000 50 years	2011-01 January 2011	Noda, SeikoSeiko Noda	Her partner	IVF	Japan Japan	Japanese politician Seiko Noda gave birth to a boy in Tokyo conceived through in vitro fertilization. After years of unsuccessful fertility treatments and several miscarriages, Noda decided to receive assistance from an American egg donor.
7001500000000000000 50 years	2011-06-15 June 2011	Nicholas, AntheaAnthea Nicholas	Peter Byrnes, her 54-year-old husband	Natural Conception	Australia Australia	Anthea Nicholas, from Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, is believed to be the oldest primigravida having naturally conceived in Australia. Anthea and her husband Peter were told in 2006 that they could not have children. As a result of a medical concern, in 2010, Peter researched and developed a personal diet and health regime which enabled him to return to perfect health and subsequently corrected a sperm imperfection, which, within months of his recovery, resulted in the completely unexpected pregnancy of Anthea, while she presented then clinical signs of menopause. Anthea gave birth to her son, Nicholas Jay, on June 15, 2011.
7001510000000000000 51 years	1997-03-17 March 1997	Barbeau, AdrienneAdrienne Barbeau	Billy Van Zandt, her husband	Natural conception	United States United States	American actress Adrienne Barbeau gave birth to twin sons, Walker Steven and William Dalton, on March 17, 1997, at the age of 51. After marrying Billy Van Zandt in 1992 she started trying have a child, tried in vitro fertilization unsuccessfully, but later became pregnant naturally.
7001510000000000000 51 years	1998 1998	ZZ !Unidentified	Anonymous sperm donor	IVF with ICSI	India India	51-year-old Bodo woman, from states of the far north-eastern India, bordering Tibet and Buthan, gave birth after IVF treatment with intra cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).
7001510000000000000 51 years	2000 2000	Edwards, ElizabethElizabeth Edwards	John Edwards, her husband, former U.S. Senator and Vice Presential nominee	IVF with oocytes donation supposed	United States United States	Elizabeth Edwards, wife of the former U.S. Senator and Vice Presidential nominee John Edwards, gave birth to son Jack in 2000 at the age of 51. The couple decided to have more children after one of their two children—a 16-year-old son—was killed in a car accident in 1996. Mrs. Edwards had also had a daughter, Emma Claire, at the age of 49. Some fertility experts believe she used donor's oocytes ; Elizabeth Edwards remained silent on this question.
7001510000000000000 51 years	2001-07 July 2001	ZZ !Unidentified	Her second husband	IVF with oocytes donation	Ukraine Ukraine	51-year-old woman gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, in Kiev, Ukraine in July 2001, after IVF treatment with oocytes donation. She decided to have children at such a late age after getting married for the second time.
7001510000000000000 51 years	2001-08-01 August 2001	Zantua, MorganMorgan Zantua	Georges Zantua, her 57-year-old second husband	Natural conception	United States United States	Morgan Zantua, of Tacoma, Washington, gave birth to her first child, daughter Auriel, on August 1, 2001, in Los Angeles, at the age of 51. She was married a second time at age 44, had a miscarriage and decided not to try to have children, and then unexpectedly found out she was pregnant at age 51.
7001510000000000000 51 years	2006-12 December 2006	Grainson, SarajeanSarajean Grainson	David Grainson, her second husband, former priest	IVF with oocytes donation	United States United States	Sarajean Grainson of Long Island, New York, gave birth to a son, Luke, in December 2006 at the age of 51, after IVF treatment with oocytes donation. Grainson and her second husband David, former priest, had twins, Matthew and David, in June 2008. Sarajean Grainson also had three adult children from her first marriage.
7001510000000000000 51 years	2007-09-28 September 2007	Palmeira Serrão, RosineteRosinete Palmeira Serrão	Her son-in-law (gestational surrogate)	IVF with her daughter's oocytes (gestational surrogate)	Brazil Brazil	Rosinete Palmeira Serrão gave birth to her own twin grandsons, Antonio Bento and Vitor Gabriel, at a hospital in Recife, Brazil, on September 28, 2007 at the age of 51, after choosing to act as a gestational surrogate for her 27-year-old daughter, Claudia Michelle Serrão Pereira, who had tried to become pregnant for four years. Under Brazilian law, a surrogate mother is required to be one's close relative, so Serrao volunteered because Claudia had no sisters. The children were conceived through artificial insemination using Claudia's eggs and her husband's sperm.
7001510000000000000 51 years	2009-12 December 2009	Makhtur, AnitaAnita Makhtur	Her husband, Indian origin as her	IVF with her own unfrozen oocytes	India India	Anita Makhtur, previously childless Indian woman, gave birth to twin boys in December 2009, at the age of 51, after IVF treatment. She was unable to get pregnant for 23 years because of fibroma uteri and had two unsuccessful IVF tries. She is probably the oldest woman who had IVF using her own unfrozen oocytes.
7001517500000000000 51 years ¾	1995-02-28 February 1995	Lyon, PaulinePauline Lyon	David Lyon, her 50-year-old second husband	IVF	United Kingdom United Kingdom	Pauline Lyon, born in late March 1943, gave birth to a daughter, Lauren, at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England, in late February 1995, at the age of 51 years and 11 months, after IVF treatment. She still gave birth to a boy at 55 years and 11 months ¾ after the same treatment, when Lyon and her second husband wanted their daughter to have a sibling. Lyon also had an adult daughter from her first marriage.
7001520000000000000 52 years	1990 1990	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	IVF with oocytes donation	United States United States	A Californian 52-year-old woman gave birth to a son conceived by IVF using oocyte(s) donation in 1990.
7001520000000000000 52 years	2001-10 October 2001	Leibovitz, AnnieAnnie Leibovitz	Anonymous sperm donor	Natural conception	United States United States	American portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz was 52 when she gave birth to her daughter Sarah in October 2001.
7001520000000000000 52 years	2003-08-28 August 2003	Belyavskaya, LyudmilaLyudmila Belyavskaya	Alexander Belyavsky, her husband, Russian actor	Natural conception	Russia Russia	Lyudmila Belyavskaya, second wife of Russian actor Aleksandr Borisovich Belyavskiy (known as Alexander Belyavsky), gave birth to her first child, daughter Alexandra, in Moscow, Russia, on August 28, 2003, at the age of 52, after a natural conception.
7001520000000000000 52 years	2007-05 May 2007	ZZ !Unidentified	Her son-in-law (gestational surrogate)	IVF with oocytes donation (gestational surrogate)	Greece Greece	52-year-old woman gave birth to her own twin grandchildren in Greece in May 2007, after choosing to act as a gestational surrogate, by IVF with oocytes donation, for her infertile daughter. Under the laws of Greece, a surrogate mother is required to be under 50, but in this case an exception was made.
7001520000000000000 52 years	2008-06 June 2008	Johnston, KarenKaren Johnston	Roger Johnston, her 53-year-old husband	IVF	United Kingdom United Kingdom	Karen Johnston of Bicester, England, gave birth to a girl, Willow, in June 2008, at the age of 52, after undergoing IVF treatment in Czech Republic. She was already a mother of 7, always alternating boy and girl also —Daniel (♂) 33, Jemma (♀) 28, Scott (♂) 27, Amy (♀) 26, Aiden (♂) 17, Bethany (♀) 14, Joseph (♂) 13—, and had two twins —Imogen (♀) & Asa (♂)— in July 2010 also after IVF treatment in the same Czech clinic.
7001520000000000000 52 years	2011-01-10 January 2011	Colonges, CatherineCatherine Colonges	Alain Colonges, her 51-year-old husband	Natural conception	France France	Catherine Colonges, French woman from Togo, of Limogne-en-Quercy, Lot, France, gave birth to triplets, a girl Léonore, and two boys, Elian and Alexis, in Toulouse, France, at the age of 52, after conceiving naturally with her husband Alain. Mrs Colonges already has two 30-year-old and 27-year-old sons, a 15-year-old daughter and three grandchildren.
7001520000000000000 52 years	2011-11-22 November 2011	Lockerman, CarolineCaroline Lockerman	Anonymous sperm donor	IVF	United States United States	Caroline Lockerman, of Alabama, gave birth to twin boys on November 22, 2010, at the age of 52, after IVF treatment, fertilized by anonymous donor sperm.
7001520400000000000 52 years, 4 months	1757-06-11 June 1757	Despeignes Blouin, JulienneJulienne Despeignes Blouin	Pierre Blouin, her 61-year-old husband	Natural conception	France France	Julienne Despeignes wife Blouin, French woman from Ercé-en-Lamée, in Brittany, 35 km south Rennes, France, born on February 13, 1705, gave birth to her last daughter, Magdelaine, on June 11, 1757, at the age of 52 years and almost 4 months, after conceiving naturally with her husband Pierre. Mrs Blouin born Despeignes had already had 12 children, of which, at 44 years, in February 1749, before having two others, at 45 and 49 years, two twins of opposite sex, as she herself had a twin brother.
7001530000000000000 53 years	1866 1866	ZZ !Unidentified	Her 25-year-old husband	Natural Conception	United States United States	Married at 52 to a barely 24-year-old man, five years after menopause at the age of 47, an American woman naturally conceived and gave birth to two daughters in two years, in 1866 and 1867, at the age of 53 then 54, was reported.
7001530000000000000 53 years	1880 1880	Gauss Kenney, LucyLucy Gauss Kenney	Her husband	Natural Conception	United States United States (northern states)	Lucy Gauss Kenney, a Confederate veteran, gave birth to her last child at age 53, after a natural conception.
7001530000000000000 53 years	1992-11-10 November 1992	Shearing, MaryMary Shearing	Don Shearing, her 32-year-old second husband	IVF with oocytes donation	United States United States	Mary Shearing, a 53-year-old Californian woman, former amateur body builder, became pregnant with the help of medical technology in New York, New York, after married 7 years earlier Don Shearing, a 21 years younger man, gave birth on November 10, 1992 to about 12 weeks premature twin girls, at Martin Luther Hospital. The first baby, Amy Leigh, born naturally, was 2 pounds, 2 ounces. Her sister, Kelly Ann, born by Caesarean section, weighed 2 pounds, 12 ½ ounces.
7001530000000000000 53 years	1992-12-28 December 1992	Wesolowski, GeraldineGeraldine Wesolowski	Her son (gestational surrogate)	IVF with her daughter-in-law's oocytes (gestational surrogate)	United States United States	Geraldine Wesolowski of New York, New York, gave birth to her own grandson Matthew on December 28, 1992 at the age of 53, after IVF treatment in Christian Fertility Institute in Easton, Pennsylvania, in order to act as a gestational surrogate for her 31-year-old son Mark Wesolowski and his 32-year-old wife, Susan Cooper Wesolowski, who underwent hysterectomy at age 21 after the birth of her first son died at 2, and was not able to have children. It was believed that Geraldine Wesolowski, who was postmenopausal, was then the oldest woman in the United States to give birth through in vitro fertilization. That led to appearances on the Oprah Winfrey and Montel Williams television shows, according to Dr. Ida M. Campagna, the Amherst-based obstetrician who delivered Matthew.
7001530000000000000 53 years	2005-09 September 2005	Casserley, AnnieAnnie Casserley	Her son-in-law (gestational surrogate)	IVF with her daughter's genetically selected oocytes (gestational surrogate)	United Kingdom United Kingdom	Annie Casserley gave birth to her own granddaughter Annie Trinity Hattersley in United Kingdom in September 2005, at the age of 53, after choosing to act as a gestational surrogate for her 35-year-old daughter, Emma Hattersley, who has a rare cancer-like condition, Histiocytosis X, making her unable to withstand pregnancy.
7001530000000000000 53 years	2008-06 June 2008	Grainson, SarajeanSarajean Grainson	David Grainson, her second husband, former priest	IVF with oocytes donation	United States United States	Sarajean Grainson of Long Island, New York, gave birth to twin sons, Matthew and David, in June 2008 at the age of 53, after IVF treatment with oocytes donation. Grainson and her second husband David, former priest, already had a son Luke in December 2006. Sarajean Grainson also had three adult children from her first marriage.
7001530000000000000 53 years	2008-12 December 2008	Dramis, AdeleAdele Dramis	Her husband	IVF with oocytes donation	Italy Italy	Adele Dramis, an Italian woman of Greek origin, gave birth to twins, a boy, Vicenzo, and a girl, Rosa, in Naples, Italy, in late December 2008, at the age of 53. She had been trying to get pregnant since she got married at age 45, and after years of trying she decided to receive IVF treatment.
7001530000000000000 53 years	2011-06-04 June 2011	Fehér, AnnaAnna Fehér	Her husband	IVF	Hungary Hungary	Hungarian actress Anna Fehér gave birth to her first child, a son, László Barnabás, on June 4, 2011, at the age of 53. She has been trying to conceive for ten years.
7001530000000000000 53 years	2011-06 June 2011	Hughes, DebbieDebbie Hughes	Paul Clarke, her partner	Natural conception, despite taking the pill	United Kingdom United Kingdom	Debbie Hughes of Daventry, Northamptonshire, England, already mother of a daughter, Hayley, died before 18 in 1997, and two sons, Mark, 26, et Brandon, 11,and grandmother of two grand-daughters, Nicole, 3, and Lydia, 2, by Mark, gave birth to a baby boy, Kyle, in June 2011, at the age of 53, after a natural conception.
7001540000000000000 54 years	1669 1669	Greenhill, ElizabethElizabeth Greenhill	William Greenhill, her husband	Natural Conception	England England	Elizabeth Greenhill, born 1615, who had 39 children with her husband William Greenhill, gave birth to her last child, future London surgeon Thomas Greenhill, in 1669 at the age of 54, having conceived naturally.
7001540000000000000 54 years	1867 1867	ZZ !Unidentified	Her 26-year-old husband	Natural Conception	United States United States	Married at 52 to a barely 24-year-old man, five years after menopause at the age of 47, an American woman naturally conceived and gave birth to two daughters in two years, in 1866 and 1867, at the age of 53 then 54, it was reported.
7001540000000000000 54 years	2000 2000	Shevchenko, GalinaGalina Shevchenko	Her husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Russia Russia	Galina Shevchenko gave birth to twin sons in Russia in 2000 at the age of 54. Shevchenko and her husband decided to go through fertility treatment after accidental death of their only son. It was the first case of successful case of IVF treatment of a postmenopausal woman in Russia.
7001540000000000000 54 years	2000 2000	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	IVF with oocytes donation	Israel Israel	A 54-year-old Jewish woman of Israel gave birth to a son in 2000, after IVF treatment using oocytes donation, decided after the death of their only son, a soldier.
7001540000000000000 54 years	2007-01 January 2007	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	IVF with oocytes donation	Czech Republic Czech Republic	54-year-old woman gave birth to a daughter in Prague in "U Apolináře" clinic in January 2007, after IVF treatment with oocytes donation.
7001540000000000000 54 years	2009-11 November 2009	ZZ !Unidentified	Her 71-year-old husband, previously childless	IVF with oocytes donation supposed	Israel Israel	54-year-old woman gave birth to twins, boy and girl, in Bnei Brak, Israel, in November 2009. Her 71-year old husband became a first time father, while she had adult children from a previous marriage.
7001540000000000000 54 years	2010-07 July 2010	Johnston, KarenKaren Johnston	Roger Johnston, her 55-year-old husband	IVF	United Kingdom United Kingdom	Karen Johnston of Bicester, England, gave birth to twins, a boy, Asa, and a girl, Imogen, in July 2010, at the age of 54, after undergoing IVF treatment in Czech Republic. She was already a mother of 8, always alternating boy and girl also —Daniel (♂) 33, Jemma (♀) 28, Scott (♂) 27, Amy (♀) 26, Aiden (♂) 17, Bethany (♀) 14, Joseph (♂) 13, Willow (♀) 2—. Her eighth child was born in June 2008 also after IVF treatment in the same Czech clinic.
7001540000000000000 54 years	2011-08-15 August 2011	Couto dos Santos, SolangeSolange Couto dos Santos	Jamerson de Andrade, her second husband	Natural conception	Brazil Brazil	Brazilian actress Solange Couto dos Santos, already mother of a son, Márcio Felipe, and a daughter, Morena Mariah, of her previous marriage, gave birth to her third child, a son, named Benjamin, on August 15, 2011, at the age of 54, after a natural conception.
7001540100000000000 54 years, 1 month, 10 days	1920 1920s	Pearce, ElizabethElizabeth Pearce	Her husband	Natural conception	United Kingdom United Kingdom	Mrs Elizabeth Pearce of Biterne, Southampton, England, gave birth to her youngest child when she was 54 years and 40 days old. The case, reported on July 5, 1932, the birth would have occurred in the 20's.
7001541000000000000 54 years, 10 months	2000-01 January 2000	Garcia, AraceliaAracelia Garcia	Her husband	Natural conception	United States United States	Aracelia Garcia of Sunnyside, Washington, astounded doctors when she naturally conceived (without hormonal treatment) all-female triplets in 1999 at the age of 54. She delivered by Caesarean section in early January 2000 three healthy girls, named Arianna, Brianna and Cecelia, to play on initials A, B, C.
7001550000000000000 55 years	1723 1723	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	Natural conception	Germany Germany	Medical books of the 19th century quoted the remarkable reported case of a German woman who became, in 1723, mother of a daughter of her husband by natural conception at the age of 55.
7001550000000000000 55 years	1981 1981	Albina, LeontinaLeontina Albina	Her husband	Natural conception	Chile Chile	Leontina Albina of San Antonio, Chile, Chile, born in 1926, gave birth to her 55th registered child in 1981, at the age of 55, after a natural conception.
7001550000000000000 55 years	1998-04-18 April 1998	ZZ !Unidentified	Anonymous sperm single donor	IVF	United States United States	An ummarried 55-year-old woman gave birth to quadruplets, three girls and a boy, in San Diego on April 18, 1998, after IVF treatment. She is probably the oldest woman who gave birth to quadruplets. Three girls and one boy were born at 27 weeks, the smallest of them weighted only 10 oz at birth.
7001550000000000000 55 years	2000-02-22 February 2000	McReavy Nolen, MarilynMarilyn McReavy Nolen	Randy Nolen, her 48-year-old husband	IVF with oocytes donation	United States United States	Marilyn Nolen (born McReavy), former Olympic athlete and volleyball coach at St. Louis University, gave birth to twin sons, Travis and Ryan, on February 22, 2000, at the age of 55. She married her husband Randy Nolen in 1988, and since that were trying to have a child, and after 10 years with no success they decided in 1998 to go through IVF.
7001550000000000000 55 years	2004-12 December 2004	Cade, TinaTina Cade	Jason Hammond, her 29-year-old son-in-law (gestational surrogate)	IVF with her daughter's oocytes (gestational surrogate)	United States United States	Tina Cade, from Virginia, gave birth to her own triplet grandchildren, two boys, Aaron and Kai, and a girl, Simone, in December 2004, at the age of 55, acting as a surrogate mother for her 29-year-old daughter Camille Hammond and her husband Jason. Camille suffers from endometriosis and had tried six attempts of IVF, but had been unsuccessful each time, and then Ms Cade has offered her help.
7001550000000000000 55 years	2007-07 July 2007	Mensah, VeronicaVeronica Mensah	Atsu Dikenou, a fellow Ghanaian	IVF	United States United States	Veronica Mensah of Lithonia, Georgia, gave birth to twins, boy and girl, Daniel Atsu and Diana Atsupui, in July 2007, at the age of 55. The children are named Dikenou after their genitor. She was trying to have children since she was 25, and after 30 years she decided to through IVF, which was done in her native Ghana.
7001550000000000000 55 years	2007-08-27 August 2007	"Brinda" !"Brinda"	"Alagappan", her 57-year-old husband	IVF with oocytes donation and ICSI	India India	Indian woman named "Brinda" from Bhadravathi, Karnataka, gave birth to twin sons, Akash and Rishikesh, on August 27, 2007, in Chennai, at the age of 55. She and her husband "Alagappan" were childless for 28 years due to lack of sufficient number of his sperms (oligospermia), so they decided to go through in vitro fertilization (IVF) with oocytes donation and intra cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).
7001550000000000000 55 years	2008 2008	ZZ !Unidentified	Unknown	IVF	South Korea South Korea	A 55-year-old Korean gave birth at Seoul, South Korea, in 2008 (date not sure), with the help of the team of Dr. Kim Ahm who followed, after, "Park", the 57-year-old woman become a mother at Seoul in late September 2012.
7001550000000000000 55 years	2008-11-21 November 2008	ZZ !Unidentified	Anonymous sperm single donor	IVF	Austria Austria	55-year-old single woman gave birth to twin girls in Graz, Austria on November 21, 2008, by Caesarian section. She became pregnant after IVF abroad. The father is anonymous.
7001550000000000000 55 years	2010-11-26 November 2010	Nannini, GiannaGianna Nannini	Her heterosexual partner	Natural conception, on hormone replacement therapy (HRT)	Italy Italy	Italian singer Gianna Nannini, openly bisexual, gave birth to her first child, a girl, Penelope, on November 26, 2010, at the age of 55, having conceived naturally with her heterosexual partner after fertility treatment with pills.
7001550000000000000 55 years, 3 days	1936 1936	Wilson, WinifredWinifred Wilson	Her husband	Natural conception	United Kingdom United Kingdom	Winifred Wilson, from Eccles, west of Manchester, England, who gave birth to her 10th child at the age of 55 years and 3 days in 1936, was the oldest British mother until September 1987, when Kathleen Campbell, from Nottingham, England, gave birth at 55 years and 141 days.
7001550200000000000 55 years, 2 months, 10 days	1931-3-17 March 1931	Higgins, MaryMary Higgins	Her husband	Natural conception	Ireland Ireland	Mrs Mary Higgins of Cork City, Ireland, born on January 7, 1876, gave birth to her first child when she was 55 years and 69 days old, on March 17, 1931, St-Patrick Day, Irish National Day. The case was reported on July 5, 1932.
7001550400000000000 55 years, 4 months, 19 days	1987-09-09 September 1987	Campbell, KathleenKathleen Campbell	Sydney Campbell, her 65-year-old husband	Natural conception	United Kingdom United Kingdom	Kathleen Campbell of Kimberley, Nottinghamshire, England, born on April 21, 1932, and already grandmother by one of her six elder children ages 16 to 22, gave birth by Caesarean section to her 7th child, a 6 lb 7 oz (2.920 kg) son named Isaac Joby, on September 9, 1987, at the age of 55 years and 141 days, having conceived naturally.
7001557500000000000 55 years ¾	1999-03-22 March 1999	Lyon, PaulinePauline Lyon	David Lyon, her 54-year-old second husband	IVF	United Kingdom United Kingdom	Pauline Lyon, born in late March 1943, gave birth to a son, Brodie, at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England, on March 22, 1999, at the age of 55 years and 11 months ¾, after IVF treatment. She had also given birth to a girl at age 51 after the same treatment, and Lyon and her second husband wanted their daughter to have a sibling. Lyon also had an adult daughter from her first marriage.
7001557500000000000 55 years ¾	2005-10 October 2005	Raunigk, AnnegretAnnegret Raunigk	Her fifth husband	Natural Conception	Germany Germany	Annegret Raunigk a Berliner, age 55 ¾, professor of English and Russian, already the mother of 12 children (5 girls and 7 boys) ages 34 to 13 years - Antje (♀) 34, Ellen (♀) 31, Bjarne (♂) 30, Torben (♂) 27, Lieven (♂) 25, Tjard (♂) 24, Inken (♀) 23, Svea (♀) 20, Lennart (♂) 19, Velten (♂) 18, Ingvar (♂) 17, and Auda (♀) 13, all with Nordic names to be distinct from those of her students -, born of five different fathers, and grandmother of six grandchildren ages 16 years to 6 months, gave birth, in late October 2005, in Berlin, Germany, to a daughter, Lelia, her 13th child, conceived naturally. Born in early 1950, she had had her first child at not even 22 years, thirty-four years before. Married and divorced five times of the five fathers of her children, she had to, shortly before this last delivery, flee with her six cadets children still living at home, in Hungary, where is born her last grandson.
7001560000000000000 56 years	2001-05-24 May 2001	Bezant, LynnLynn Bezant	Derek Bezant, her husband	IVF with oocytes donation	United Kingdom United Kingdom	Lynn Bezant of Croughton, Northamptonshire gave birth to twins, girl and boy, Susan and David, by Caesarean section, on May 24, 2001, at the age of 56, after receiving fertility treatment. Bezant, who already had three adult children with her husband Derek, received donor eggs which had been fertilised with her husband's sperm. The couple had always wanted a larger family but had failed after Bezant gave birth to stillborn twins and then suffered a miscarriage.
7001560000000000000 56 years	2002-01 January 2002	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	IVF with oocytes donation	India India	56-year-old Indian woman, from Kerala, southern India, gave birth, by Caesarean section, to a son, early 2002, after IVF treatment with oocytes donation.
7001560000000000000 56 years	2006 2006	ZZ !Unidentified	Unknown	IVF with oocytes donation	Australia Australia	A 56-year-old woman, from Queensland, Australia, gave birth to a baby, in 2006, after IVF treatment with oocytes donation.
7001560000000000000 56 years	2008-01-10 January 2008	Akhmadeeva, RaisaRaisa Akhmadeeva	Rachid Akhmadeeva, her husband	Natural conception supposed	Russia Russia	Raisa Akhmadeeva gave birth to her first child, a boy, in Ulyanovsk, Russia on January 10, 2008, at the age of 56. Her husband Rachid has already three children from his previous marriage, but they always wanted to have a child together.
7001560000000000000 56 years	2008-10-11 October 2008	Dalenberg, JacilynJacilyn Dalenberg	Joe Coseno, her son-in-law (gestational surrogate)	IVF with her daughter's oocytes (gestational surrogate)	United States United States	Jacilyn Dalenberg (former Wooster) of Mansfield, Ashland, Ohio, gave birth to her own triplet granddaughters, Elisabeth Jacilyn, and twins Carmina Ann and Gabriella Claire, on October 11, 2008, at the age of 56, acting as a surrogate mother for her daughter Kim Wooster Coseno and her husband Joe Coseno. Already mother of two children, a girl, Brittni (Wilkinson) and a boy, Colin (Anderson), of her two previous companions, Kim Wooster became sterile after giving birth to her son.
7001560000000000000 56 years	2010-05-26 May 2010	De Ambrosis, GabriellaGabriella De Ambrosis	Luigi De Ambrosis, her 69-year-old husband	IVF with oocytes donation	Italy Italy	Gabriella De Ambrosis gave birth to her first child, daughter Viola, on May 26, 2010 in Italy, at the age of 56, after IVF treatment abroad. Gabriella married her husband Luigi in 1990 and were trying many years to conceive naturally and also had two requests for adoption turned down. In September 2011 an Italian court has ordered their daughter to be taken into care after ruling that librarian Gabriella, 57, and her retired husband, 70, were too old.
7001561100000000000 56 years, 11 months, 27 days	2004-11-09 November 2004	St. James, AletaAleta St. James	Two anonymous sperm donors	IVF with oocytes donation	United States United States	Aleta St. James, born on November 12, 1947, gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, Francesca and Gian, at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, New York on November 9, 2004, just three days before her 57th birthday, after having undergone IVF treatment using donor eggs.
7001570000000000000 57 years	1996-03-14 March 1996	Surkova, NatalyaNatalya Surkova	Her second husband	Natural conception, on hormone replacement therapy (HRT)	Russia Russia	Natalya Surkova became the oldest mother in Russia after giving birth to her daughter Sasha on March 14, 1996, at the age of 57. She became pregnant after 1.5 years of hormonal treatment, having been established in premenopausal. Surkova, a divorced mother of two adult children, decided to have one more child because her new partner was childless.
7001570000000000000 57 years	1998-12-12 December 1998	Cates, JudithJudith Cates	Carl M. Cates Jr, her 48-year-old husband	IVF	United States United States	Judith Cates of Evansville, Indiana gave birth to twin girls, Margaret Jan Marie (Maggi) and Carli Sue Morgan (Carli), on December 12, 1998, at the age of 57. She got pregnant after IVF treatment, and she has said that she and her husband, Carl, are often mistaken for grandparents.
7001570000000000000 57 years	2004 2004	ZZ !Unidentified	Illegal 15-year-old teenage sperm donor, allegedly	IVF	India India	A 57 year-old woman from Jayaprakash Narayan Nagar, in South of Bangalore, Karnataka, India gave birth to a triplet of two boys and a girl. They were a couple who demanded a Brahmin (the caste of literati scholars) sperm donor but could not find any in the government sector but later found a private IVF clinic which accepted sperm donation from youth below 18. The sperm donor allegedly to be said of 15-year-old from Brahmin caste. Although the guidelines proposed by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for sperm donation strictly prohibits engagement of teenagers below 18 years in such activities but the teens and the medical professionals are frequently breaching the law for their respective purposes, the former which aim to earn extra money. The engagement of underage teens in sperm donation in India here is on the rise.
7001570000000000000 57 years	2005-04-20 April 2005	Swain, RosieRosie Swain	Jay Swain, her husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	United States United States	Rosie Swain naturally gave birth to twins, girl and boy, Diana and Christian, in USA on April 20, 2005, at the age of 57. Swain and her husband Jay, who already were six times grandparents and four times great-grandparents, by her six eldests, decided to go through IVF in order to give their last child, 6-year-old son Jimmy, a sibling close in age.
7001570000000000000 57 years	2008-03-28 March 2008	Tollefsen, SusanSusan Tollefsen	Nick Mayer, her 46-year-old partner	IVF with oocytes donation	United Kingdom United Kingdom	Susan Tollefsen, English woman Norway native, of Laindon, Essex, England, gave birth to her first child, daughter Freya, on March 28, 2008, at the age of 57, after IVF treatment with oocytes donation. She was refused to be treated in Britain due to her age, so she went to Russia and Poland to receive IVF. Two years later she was willing to have one more child, this time she was accepted at London Women's Clinic, and became the oldest woman in Britain who was offered this kind of treatment, but later she decided not to risk her health.
7001570000000000000 57 years	2008-07-13 July 2008	"Vera" !"Vera"	Her husband	Natural conception	Ukraine Ukraine	57-year-old woman gave birth to a son, Andrei, in Kiev, Ukraine by Caesarean section on June 13, 2008 at the age of 57. Her first son died at age 20, later she gave birth to twin boys, but they died after 10 days, so she and her husband decided to try once again.
7001570000000000000 57 years	2010 2010	ZZ !Unidentified	Unknown	IVF with oocytes donation	Australia Australia	A 57-year-old woman gave birth to a baby in 2010, in Perth, Western Australia, after IVF treatment with oocytes donation.
7001570000000000000 57 years	2010-08 August 2010	Butler, PamelaPamela Butler	Her son-in-law (gestational surrogate)	IVF with her daughter's oocytes (gestational surrogate)	United Kingdom United Kingdom	57-year-old Pamela Butler, of Blackwood, Wales, gave birth to a boy, Josef, in August 2010 via surrogacy. Her 35-year-old daughter, Nichola, had tried to have a baby on her own and failed. Pamela Butler became Britain's oldest surrogate mother.
7001570000000000000 57 years	2010-11 November 2010	ZZ !Unidentified	Anonymous Indian sperm donor	IVF	Australia Australia	57-year-old Indian woman gave birth to a girl in Melbourne, Australia, in November 2010, after IVF with sperm donated from India, setting a record to become the oldest mother in Australia.
7001570000000000000 57 years	2011-09 September 2011	Sofia, SilvanaSilvana Sofia	Her 70-year-old husband	IVF with oocytes donation	Italy Italy	Silvana Sofia, 57-year-old woman doctor, gave birth to female twins, Karola Pia and Adriana Cristina, in Salerno, Italy in September 2011. Her husband was 70 years old at that time.
7001570000000000000 57 years	2011-11-28 November 2011	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	IVF with oocytes donation	United States United States	57-year-old woman from California, USA gave birth to twin boys in Palm Springs on November 28, 2011.[citation needed]
7001570000000000000 57 years	2012-09-26 September 2012	"Park" !"Park"	Her 60-year-old husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	South Korea South Korea	A 57-year-old Korean (born in 1955), nicknamed "Park", gave birth by caesarean section performed at 36 weeks, to two girls, fraternal twins, weighing, respectively, 2.230 kg and 2.630 kg, on September 26, 2012, at the Obstetric Asan Medical Center, at Seoul, South Korea. After 27 years to try unsuccessfully to conceive naturally with her husband, because of the obstruction of her fallopian tubes, the menopause had occurred when she was 45 years old, twelve years before. She therefore had to resort to IVF with donated oocytes, fertilized by the sperm of her 60-year-old husband.
7001570400000000000 57 years, 4 months (also 52 and 55 years)	1972-11-24 November 1972	Martin, AnnaAnna Martin	Raymond Martin, her 55-year-old husband	Natural conception	United States United States	Anna Martin, of Broken Arrow, near Tulsa, Oklahoma, already mother of six children, the eldest, Louis, was then 25, gave birth by Caesarean section to a daughter, Mary-Jane, on November 24, 1972, at the age of 57 years and 4 months. She already had her previous children, a daughter, in summer 1967, at the age of 52, then a son, Donnie-Ray, in summer 1970, at the age of 55.
7001570400000000000 57 years, 4 months, 7 days	1956-10-18 October 1956	Kistler, Ruth AliceRuth Alice Kistler	Her husband	Natural conception, on hormone replacement therapy (HRT)	Unitred States United States	Ruth Alice Kistler of Portland, Oregon, gave birth to a daughter, Susan, in Los Angeles, California, on October 18, 1956, at the age of 57 years and 129 days. The birth predated the advent of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) making Kistler one of the oldest women known to have conceived naturally. Born in June 1899, she died in 1982, at the age of 82 or 83, while her daughter was 25 or 26.
7001575000000000000 57 years ½	2003-01 January 2003	Lennon, SandraSandra Lennon	Michaël Lennon, her second husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	United Kingdom United Kingdom	Sandra Lennon of Byfleet, Surrey gave birth to her son Joshua in the beginning of 2003, at the age of 57 ½, after IVF treatment ; she will still have a second son, Alex, by same treatment, in October 2004. Sandra Lennon, who has two adult children from her first marriage, told that she decided to go through IVF after she met her second husband, Michaël Lennon. But later it was revealed that though they are officially married, they have never lived together and Michael didn't even know that Alex, the second child, had been born until two weeks after the birth.
7001580000000000000 58 years	1757 1757	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	Natural conception	Prussia Prussia	Albrecht von Haller (October 16, 1708 – December 12, 1777), German Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet, reported the case of a German woman who has given birth in 1757 to a daughter naturally conceived with her husband at the age already advanced of 58 years.
7001580000000000000 58 years	1818-12-24 December 1818	Saunders, Mrs GeorgeMrs George Saunders	Her husband	Natural conception	United Kingdom United Kingdom	The Royal Cornwall Gazette of January 2, 1819, reporting the birth of twins, on previous Christmas Eve (December 24, 1818), to Mrs George Saunders, wife of a London shoemaker, in the 59th year of her age. Her last previous child had been born 35 years before that.
7001580000000000000 58 years	1991 1991	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	IVF using oocytes donation	Denmark Denmark	58-year-old Danish woman gave birth to a son in 1991, after IVF treatment with oocytes donation fertilized by her husband's sperm.
7001580000000000000 58 years	1995 1995	Bacco, EmiliaEmilia Bacco	Her husband	IVF with oocytes donation	Italy Italy	Emilia Bacco, 58-year-old Italian woman from Salerno, Italy, gave birth to twin boys in 1995, after IVF treatment with oocytes donation fertilized by her husband's sperm.
7001580000000000000 58 years	1999-09 September 1965	Beckford, DorisDoris Beckford	Her husband	Natural conception	United Kingdom United Kingdom	Doris Beckford of London, England gave birth to her fourth child, after going to the Doctors for amenorrhea and distention of the abdomen, after being told she was suffering from an ovarian cyst and being booked in for an operation for a removal. On arrival to the hospital and just prior to being put under general anaesthetic was examined and was told she was 6 months pregnant. A healthy baby girl was delivered 3 months later.
7001580000000000000 58 years	2001-10 October 2001	"Pragna" !"Pragna"	Her husband	IVF with oocytes donation	India India	"Pragna", 58-year-old Indian woman, from Mumbai, Maharashtra, gave birth to a son, by Caesarean section, in October 2001.
7001580000000000000 58 years	2002-09 September 2002	Bosher, JanetJanet Bosher	Donated embryos' genitor	IVF with embryos donation	United Kingdom United Kingdom	Janet Bosher gave birth to her twins children Sarah and James in London in September 2002, at the age of 58, after IVF treatment with donated embryos, her partner Martin Maslin, also apparently sterile, at the Professor Ian Craft's private clinic. In January 2003, Martin Maslin died from a heart attack at age 64, five months after the twins' birth. After his death the wisdom of a couple close to retirement age having fertility treatment was debated.
7001580000000000000 58 years	2003-03-08 March 2003	Ellis, SamiraSamira Ellis	Her companion	IVF with oocytes donation	Sweden Sweden	Samira Ellis, an Israeli native, gave birth to twins, boy, Elias, and girl, Solva, in Sweden on March 8, 2003, at the age of 58.
7001580000000000000 58 years	2006-12-01 December 2006	Stopler, AnnAnn Stopler	Ayal Chomsky, her son-in-law (gestational surrogate)	IVF with her daughter's oocytes (gestational surrogate)	United States United States	Ann Stolper, of Delray Beach, Florida, gave birth to her own twin granddaughters, Itai & Maya, in USA on December 1, 2006, at the age of 58, acting as a surrogate mother for her daughter Caryn Stopler Chomsky and her husband Ayal Chomsky. Caryn Chomsky had had a hysterectomy at age 25 as she had been diagnosed with cervical cancer, and was not be able to have children the traditional way.
7001580000000000000 58 years	2010-05-31 May 2010	"Cicly" !"Cicly"	Her husband	IVF	India India	An Indian woman named Cicly of Muvattupuzha, Ernakulam district gave birth to a boy in St George Hospital on May 31, 2010, at the age of 58, after IVF treamment, with her owns eggs supposedly. Cicly’s first son had died many years ago at the age of three and her second son died at the age of 16 in an accident in 2008. She and her husband then decided to try to have one more child.
7001580000000000000 58 years	2010 2010	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	IVF with oocytes donation	Italy Italy	58-year-old woman of Turin, Italy, gave birth to a daughter, in 2010, after IVF treatment with oocytes donation.
7001580000000000000 58 years	2011-09 September 2011	ZZ !Unidentified	Her 65 or 72-year-old husband	IVF with oocytes donation	Italy Italy	A 58-year-old woman gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, in Milan, Italy, in September 2011, after IVF treatment abroad with donor eggs. The woman and her 65-year-old (72 yo according another source) husband, mechanic, were trying to conceive naturally for 27 years.
7001580000000000000 58 years	2012-05-09 May 2012	Montuori, Maria AddolorataMaria Addolorata Montuori	Salvatore Manzo, her 59-year-old husband	Postmenopausal IVF with oocytes donation	Italy Italy	Maria Addolorata Montuori, a 58-year-old woman from Boscoreale, near Naples, Campania, Italia, gave birth to triplets, one girl, Giovanna, and two boys, Alessandro and Adriano, on May 9, 2012, at the General Hospital of aples, after postmenopausal IVF treatment, with oocytes donation fertilized by sperm of her husband, Salvatore Manzo, 59 years.
7001580500000000000 58 years, 4 months	2004-12 December 2004	Cohen, LaurenLauren Cohen	Frank Garcia, her 39-year-old second husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	United States United States	Lauren Cohen of Paramus, New Jersey, born on August 11, 1946, already mother of a 26-year-old daughter, Renee, of her first marriage, gave birth to a daughter, Raquel, in New York, New York, in December 2004, at the age of 58 years and 4 months. Lauren Cohen and her husband, Frank Garcia, will still have twins together through IVF in May 2006, using the husband's sperm and oocytes from a donor. The couple, faced with either giving away the embryos left over from the first IVF treatment or letting them be destroyed, decided to try again. As to why she chose to have children at such a late age, with a husband approximately 20 years her junior, Lauren Cohen stated, "I just thought it would be unfair to Frank for him to marry me and never have the opportunity to have a child. He never asked me to have a child, but I knew it would make him happy".
7001580500000000000 58 years, 5 months	2007-12 December 2007	Katicelik, TürkanTürkan Katicelik	Selim Katicelik, her 64-year-old husband	IVF with anonymous 25-year-old donor's ovocytes	Germany Germany	Türkan Katicelik, a Turkish woman living in Aschaffenburg, Germany gave birth to a daughter, Karya, in December 2007. The child weighed 2.1 kg, was 46 cm tall and was delivered by caesarean section. She had had several miscarriages before she gave birth to her first child. She used IVF with an anonymous 25 year old donor's oocytes. In 2008, she announced she was a bit younger than had previously been reported, due to a mistake in the official registration. She would be 60 in July, 2009, meaning she had been about 58 ½ at the birth.
7001585000000000000 58 years ½	1998 1998	Fu-mei, LinLin Fu-mei	Her husband	Natural conception, on hormone replacement therapy (HRT)	Republic Of China Republic of China	Lin Fu-mei, of Republic of China (Taiwan), whose age was reported between 58 and 59, gave birth to illegal twin daughters in 1998, naturally conceived on HRT.
7001580800000000000 58 years, 8 months	1992-07 July 1992	Martino, MirandaMiranda Martino	Her husband	IVF with oocytes donation	Italy Italy	Italian singer Miranda Martino gave birth to a son in early July 1992 after IVF treatment with oocyte donation. Born on October 26, 1933, she was then 58 years and more than 8 months.
7001590000000000000 59 years	1993-12-25 December 1993	F., JenniferJennifer F.	Her 45-year-old husband	IVF with oocytes donation	United Kingdom United Kingdom	Jennifer F. (not released name), millionnaire British businesswoman, gave birth to twin boys in a London hospital on December 25, 1993, at the age of 59, after undergoing IVF treatment in Rome, Italy, with the help of Dr. Severino Antinori. The oocytes from an Italian 22-year-old donor and the sperm of Jennifer's 45-year-old husband were used. This case produced much ethical debate in UK.
7001590000000000000 59 years	1997-08-20 August 1997	Brooke, DawnDawn Brooke	Raymond Brooke, her 64-year-old husband	Natural conception, on hormone replacement therapy (HRT)	United Kingdom United Kingdom	Dawn Brooke of Guernsey, Channel Islands, gave birth to a son by Caesarian section on August 20, 1997, at the age of 59. She became pregnant unexpectedly, initially mistaking the symptoms she experienced for cancer, and is the oldest mother currently known to have conceived naturally. It has been speculated that the hormone replacement therapy which Brooke had may have contributed to her ability to ovulate past menopause.
7001590000000000000 59 years	2002-12 December 2002	Wulf, JaniseJanise Wulf	Scott Wulf, her 45-year-old second husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	United States United States	Janise Wulf of Redding, California, gave birth to a boy, Ian, her 11th child, in late 2002, at the age of 59. The baby was delivered by Caesarean section, and was conceived through in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Her doctor stated that, for women over 35, giving birth can have risks, but he agreed to oversee the procedure because Janise Wulf was in good health. She and her second husband, Scott, said that they decided to have children together because Scott had not had any children in his previous marriage. Of the 10 children Janise Wulf had previously, the oldest was 37 at the time of the birth, and the youngest was 21. Janise Wulf also has 15 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild.
7001590000000000000 59 years	2004-10 October 2004	Lennon, SandraSandra Lennon	Michaël Lennon, her second husband, allegedly, an anonymous sperm donor finally	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation fertilized by her husband's sperm allegedly, anonymous donor's finally	United Kingdom United Kingdom	Sandra Lennon of Byfleet, Surrey gave birth to her son Alex in October 2004, at the age of 59. It was her second child born after IVF treatment, the first of them, son Joshua, had been born in the beginning of 2003. Both boys were conceived with oocytes donation fertilised by her husband's sperm. Lennon, who has two adult children from her first marriage, told that she decided to go through IVF after she met her second husband, Michael. But later it was revealed that though they are officially married, they have never lived together and Michael didn't even know that Alex had been born until two weeks after the birth.
7001590000000000000 59 years	2005-09-13 2005	Glazyrina, SvetlanaSvetlana Glazyrina	Ilgizar Glazyrin, her 50-year-old husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Russia Russia	Svetlana Glazyrina, of Sochi, Russia, gave birth to her first child, a boy, Camille Rinat, weighing 3.8 kg and 54 cm tall, on September 13, 2005, at the age of 59. She had been trying to have children since her marriage at age 44. After seven unsuccessful pregnancies she decided to go through IVF treatment.
7001590000000000000 59 years	2008 2008	ZZ !Unidentified	Her 71-year-old husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	United Kingdom United Kingdom	59-year-old British Indian woman gave birth in the English Midlands to twin girls conceived by IVF in India. The woman's husband was 72 years old at the moment of birth.
7001590000000000000 59 years	2008-09-06 September 2008	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with Vietnamese donor's oocytes	France France	59-year-old Frenchwoman of Vietnamese origin gave birth by Caesarian section to two boys and a girl on September 6, 2008. The woman is thought to have resorted to a private Vietnamese clinic willing to overlook the age limit for egg donation and IVF, set at 45 in Vietnam. Egg donations are authorised in France, but most fertility clinics set a maximum age limit of 42 for would-be mothers.
7001595000000000000 59 years ½	1890 1890	ZZ !Unidentified	Her concubine	Natural conception	United States United States	Depasse reported the case of an American woman who, widowed at 39 years and menopaused at 49, became pregnant almost miraculously by her concubine just before 59, near 1890, to give birth at the age of 59 ½ to a son, who she had breastfed until 65, that he was 6 years.
7001590900000000000 59 years, 9 months, 11 days	2006-05-22 May 2006	Cohen, LaurenLauren Cohen	Frank Garcia, her 40-year-old second husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	United States United States	Lauren Cohen of Paramus, New Jersey, born on August 11, 1946, already mother of a 27-year-old daughter, Renee, of her first marriage, gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, Giselle & Gregory, in New York, New York, on May 22, 2006, at the age of 59 years, 10 months, and 11 days. Lauren Cohen and her husband, Frank Garcia, had previously had a daughter, Raquel, together through IVF in December 2004, using the husband's sperm and an egg from a donor. The couple, faced with either giving away the embryos left over from the first IVF treatment or letting them be destroyed, decided to try again. As to why she chose to have children at such a late age, with a husband approximately 20 years her junior, Lauren Cohen stated, "I just thought it would be unfair to Frank for him to marry me and never have the opportunity to have a child. He never asked me to have a child, but I knew it would make him happy".
7001600000000000000 60 years	1997-11 November 1997	Jeffrey Buttle, Elizabeth Ann "Liz"Elizabeth Ann "Liz" Jeffrey Buttle	Her husband	Natural conception, on fertilization treatment	United Kingdom United Kingdom	Elizabeth Ann Jeffrey "Liz" Buttle, of Wales, already mother of a 41-year-old daughter, Belinda, she had at the age of 19, gave birth to a son, Joe, in November 1997, at the age of 60, after she had informed doctors that she was 49, although she was 59 actually, in order to be eligible for fertility treatment. Her only previous child, daughter Belinda, was born in 1956, when Liz was 19, so she is probably the woman with the longest interval between two births.
7001600000000000000 60 years	2001-07 July 2001	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Japan Japan	60-year-old Japanese woman became the oldest mother in Tokyo, Japan when gave birth to her first child in July 2001, after IVF treatment received in USA using her husband's sperm and oocytes donated by an Asian woman.
7001600000000000000 60 years	2001-08 August 2001	"Aruna" !"Aruna"	Her husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	India India	"Aruna", a 60-year-old Indian woman, from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, gave birth to a son in August 2001, conceived by IVF treatment with oocytes donation. She and her husband married 29 years earlier, was remained childless, after 3 abortions of previa pregnancies.
7001600000000000000 60 years	2007-05-22 May 2007	Birnbaum, FriedaFrieda Birnbaum	Ken Birnbaum, her 63-year-old husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	United States United States	Dr Frieda Birnbaum of Saddle River, New Jersey, gave birth to twin sons, Jake and Jared, on May 22, 2007, at the age of 60. The babies weighed 4 lb 11 oz (2.12 kg) each and were delivered by Caesarean section. Frieda Birnbaum underwent IVF at a South African fertility clinic specializing in older women. She and her husband, who have a 6-year-old son and two adult children, a 33-year-old son and a 29-year-old daughter, said that they wanted their younger son to have siblings close in age. Hospital officials believe Dr Frieda Birnbaum may be the oldest woman to give birth to twins in the United States.
7001600000000000000 60 years	2009-02 February 2009	Hayer, RanjitRanjit Hayer	Jagir Hayer, her 60-year-old husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Canada Canada	Ranjit Hayer of Calgary, Alberta, gave birth to twin boys, in February 2009, at the age of 60, became pregnant through fertility treatments and IVF practiced in India, after several miscarriages in several years.
7001600000000000000 60 years	2010-05-25 May 2010	Cheng, WuWu Cheng	Wu Jingzhou, her husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	China China	Wu Cheng, 60-year-old Chinese woman, gave birth to twin girls prematurely via Caesarean section in Hefei on May 25, 2010. The woman and her husband decided to go through IVF treatment after the death of their 28-year-old daughter Tingting and son-in-law. The woman has said: "The girls give me and my husband the courage to live on. Despite the fact that we are old, we have the confidence to bring them up."
7001600000000000000 60 years	2010-09-28 September 2010	ZZ !Unidentified	Her son-in-law (gestational surrogate)	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with her daughter's oocytes (gestational surrogate)	Brazil Brazil	60-year-old Brazilian woman from Rio de Janeiro gave birth to her own granddaughter Alice on September 28, 2010, after choosing to act as a gestational surrogate for her 32-year-old daughter, who is infertile. Under Brazilian law, a surrogate mother is required to be one's close relative.
7001601000000000000 60 years, 10 months, 19 days	2010-01-11 January 2010	Triff, Lia GeorgiaLia Georgia Triff	Prince Paul-Philippe von Hohenzollern al Romania, her 62-year-old husband, pretender to throne of Romania	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with allegedly one of her frozen oocytes, perhaps a donor's oocyte	Romania Romania	Princess Lia Georgia Triff, wife of Prince Paul-Philippe Hohenzollern of Romania, gave birth in Romania to the Prince Carol Ferdinand Hohenzollern on January 11, 2010 ; born on February 23, 1949, she was then 60 years, 10 months, and 19 days. She previously had a daughter born in 1973 from her first union. Later, Lia Triff alleged that she used her own frozen eggs.
7001610000000000000 61 years	1891 1891	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	Natural conception	United States United States	Dr. Lovett Dewees reported the case of a woman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who, in 1891 had, at the age of 61, given birth to a son conceived naturally with her husband.
7001610000000000000 61 years	1988-01-16 January 1988	Tuaileva, CeciliaCecilia Tuaileva	Her husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Australia Australia	Cecilia Tuaileva, Australian woman, gave birth to a son on January 16, 1988, at the age of 61. She has used IVF with oocytes donation fertilized by her husband's sperm.
7001610000000000000 61 years	1992-07-27 July 1992	Cantadori, LilianaLiliana Cantadori	Her husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Italy Italy	Liliana Cantadori gave birth to a son in Modena, Italy on July 27, 1992, at the age of 61. She used IVF with oocytes donation fertilized by her husband's sperm.
7001610000000000000 61 years	2002-12-15 December 2002	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Austria Austria	An unnamed Austrian woman gave birth to her second child, a daughter weighing 6 lb (2.72 kg), on December 15, 2002 at the age of 61 in Graz. She will still give birth to another child, a boy, in early March 2007 at the age of 66. Her oldest child, a daughter, is then 25. Both pregnancies over 60 were made possible by IVF. The second will overseen by Severino Antinori. This may be the only known case in the world of two pregnancies and births at over age 60.
7001610000000000000 61 years	2007 2007	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Switzerland Switzerland	61-year-old woman became first-time mother in Switzerland in 2007, after becoming pregnant abroad by IVF treatment with oocytes donation, a procedure which is banned in the Helvetic Confederation. Another woman gave birth the same year in the country to twin boys at the age of 61years ¾.
7001610000000000000 61 years	2007-02-19 February 2007	ZZ !Unidentified	Anonymous sperm donor	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Denmark Denmark	61-year-old woman, from Vanlose, Copenhague, Denmark, gave birth to a daughter on February 19, 2007, in Copenhague, conceived by IVF treatment practiced in England, with oocytes donation fertilized by anonymous donor's sperm.
7001610000000000000 61 years	2009-02-10 February 2009	ZZ !Unidentified	Her son-in-law (gestational surrogate)	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with her daughter's oocytes (gestational surrogate)	Japan Japan	61-year-old woman gave birth to her own grandson in Nagano, northwestern Tokyo, Japan, on February 10, 2009, after choosing to act as a gestational surrogate for her daughter, who has no uterus and could not become pregnant herself. She would be the oldest surrogate mother recorded in Japan.
7001610000000000000 61 years	2011-02-13 February 2011	Casey, KristineKristine Casey	Her 42-year-old son-in-law (gestational surrogate)	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with her daughter's oocytes (gestational surrogate)	United States United States	Kristine Casey gave birth to her own grandson Finnean Lee on February 13, 2011, at Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, at the age of 61. She chose to act as a surrogate for her 36-year-old daughter Sara Connell, who is infertile. Kidney complications affecting the surrogate mother shortly after birth were quickly resolved.
7001610000000000000 61 years	2012-10-26 October 2012	Asti, Antônia LetíciaAntônia Letícia Asti	Her 55-year-old husband, José César Asti	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with her own frozen oocytes	Brazil Brazil	Antônia Letícia Asti, a Brazilian woman from Santos, 40 km south-east São Paulo, State of São Paulo, gave birth, two months before term, to twins, Sofia and Roberto, weighing 900 g (less than 2 lb) each, on October 26, 2012, one week after her a 61st birthday, after a postmenopausal IVF treatment using her own frozen oocytes fertilized by her husband (age 55 at the twins birth) remaining after their three previous unsuccessful attempts since 1992.
7001617500000000000 61 years ¾	2007 2007	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Switzerland Switzerland	Swiss woman became first-time mother in 2007, giving birth to twins, at the age of 61 years ¾. She became pregnant abroad at the age of 61 after IVF treatment with oocytes donation, a procedure which is banned in Switzerland. A fellow woman, became pregnant by the same means at 60, still abroad, gave birth to a son at 61 the same year.
7001620000000000000 62 years	1860 1860	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	Natural conception	United Kingdom United Kingdom	An inscription on the monument of the St. Peter's Church, in East Oxford, reminds of the death in childbirth near 1860 of a citizen 62-year-old woman, whose little girl had survived.
7001620000000000000 62 years	1992-08 August 1992	Ditessa, ConcettaConcetta Ditessa	her 53-year-old husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocyte donation	Italy Italy	Concetta Ditessa, a housewife from a Calabrian village in southern Italy, was due to give birth to a boy in August 1992. She was impregnated with an egg from a 30-year-old woman that was fertilized with sperm from Ditessa's husband, who is 53. There is no trace of an article about her childbirth, but her pregnancy referred to around 6 months of gestation, she probably has not had a miscarriage at this stage.
7001620000000000000 62 years	2001-05-14 May 2001	Salomone, JeanineJeanine Salomone	Robert Salomone, her 52-year-old brother	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocyte donation	France France	Jeanine Salomone, French retired teacher, gave birth to a son, Benoît-David, on May 14, 2001, in Fréjus, Var, France, at the age of 62. It is against the law in France for post-menopausal women to receive IVF so she went to the USA for treatment. The case caused some ethical debate because the two eggs donated to Jeanine by a Californian woman were inseminated with sperm from Jeanine's brother, Robert: one was brought to term by Jeanine, the other by the donor as surogate, who will give birth the week after, on May 22, 2001, to Marie-Cécile, her biological daughter promised to Jeanine. Their doctor was not informed that Jeanine and Robert were sister and brother; he thought that they were a married couple. The infants were reportedly born into a fraught family atmosphere in which Jeanine and Robert hate each other and are wrangling over a family inheritance.
7001620000000000000 62 years	2004-04-12 April 2004	Bhavani, AmmaAmma Bhavani	Her husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	India India	Amma Bhavani, of Thiruvananthapuram, southern India, gave birth to a son by Caesarean section on April 12, 2004, at the age of 62, after an IVF treatment with oocytes donation fertilized by her husband's sperm.
7001620000000000000 62 years	2006-02-19 February 2006	Wulf, JaniseJanise Wulf	Scott Wulf, her 48-year-old second husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	United States United States	Janise Wulf of Redding, California, gave birth to a boy, Adam Charles, her 12th child, on February 19, 2006, at the age of 62. The baby was delivered by Caesarean section, weighing 6 lb 10 oz (3.00 kg), and was conceived through in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Her doctor stated that, for women over 35, giving birth can have risks, but he agreed to oversee the procedure because Janise Wulf was in good health. She and her second husband, Scott, said that they decided to have children together because Scott had not had any children in his previous marriage, and because they did not want their other son, Ian, born late 2002, also conceived through IVF, to grow up an only child. Of the 10 children Janise Wulf had previously, before Ian, the oldest was 40 at the time of the birth, and the youngest was 24. Janise Wulf also has 20 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.
7001620000000000000 62 years	2006-07-05 July 2006	Rashbrook Farrant, Patricia "Patti"Patricia "Patti" Rashbrook Farrant	John Farrant, her 60-year-old husband, until then childless	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	United Kingdom United Kingdom	Patricia Rashbrook, already mother of 3 adults children, ages 26, 22, and 18, from her first union, gave birth to a son, Jude, in Brighton, England on July 5, 2006, at the age of 62. She and her husband, John Farrant, received, in Russia, IVF treatment from the same Italian fertility expert who the Della Cortes had consulted, Severino Antinori. The birth of the baby, which was born by Caesarean section and weighed 6 lb 10.5 oz (3.02 kg), sparked debate over the ethics of late motherhood in the U.K.
7001620000000000000 62 years	2007-07 July 2007	Radulovic, MilevaMileva Radulovic	Sreten Radulovic, her 69-year-old husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Montenegro Montenegro	Mileva Radulovic of Danilovgrad, northwest of Podgorica, Montenegro, gave birth in July 2007, at the age of 62. Radulovic and her 69-year-old husband Sreten became first time parent after 35 years of marriage with the help of IVF treatment.
7001620000000000000 62 years	2010-05-05 May 2010	Dimitrova, KrasimiraKrasimira Dimitrova	Her husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Bulgaria Bulgaria	Bulgarian psychiatrist Krasimira Dimitrova, from Ruse, Bulgaria, gave birth on May 5, 2010 to female twins, Mary and Jacqueline, weighting only 0.5 and 0.9 kg, after IVF treatment, at the age of 62. She decided to become pregnant after she was refused the option of adoption because of her age. Dimitrova was initially impregnated with triplets, but later doctors decided to remove one of the foetuses. She is only the second known woman aged over 60 that has given birth to twins.
7001625000000000000 62 years ½	1887 1887	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	Natural conception	England England	The Lancet Medical Journal reported in 1887 the case of an English woman who had given birth, at the age of 62 years ½, to three boys, real triplets, her 11th, 12th, and 13th children with her husband.
7001627500000000000 62 years ¾	1994-07-18 July 1994	Della Corte, RosannaRosanna Della Corte	Mauro Della Corte, her husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Italy Italy	Rosanna Della Corte of Canino, Italy gave birth to a son, Riccardo, on July 18, 1994, at the age of 62 ¾. After their first son was killed when a car crashed into his motorcycle in 1991, Rosanna Della Corte and her husband, Mauro, decided to attempt to have a second child. The couple tried to adopt, but were unable to, as under Italian law an adoptive parent could be no more than 40 years older than their potential child. Mauro read in the newspaper about an Italian doctor, Severino Antinori, who had helped a woman in her late 50s have a child. With Dr. Antinori's help, the Della Cortes conceived through IVF with oocytes donation and Mauro's sperm. Rosanna, 60, became pregnant on the first attempt, but miscarried after 40 days, and it took 6 more attempts before there was success. She was then just 62.
7001630000000000000 63 years	1751 1751	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	Natural conception	Austria Austria	Albrecht von Haller (October 16, 1708 – December 12, 1777), German Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet, reported the case of an Austrian woman who has given birth in 1751 to a son naturally conceived with her husband at the age already advanced of 63 years.
7001630000000000000 63 years	1997-04-23 April 1997	ZZ !Unidentified	Her 60-year-old husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	United States United States	An anonymous menopausal 63-year-old woman, remained childless, who had claimed to doctors to be only 55 to be eligible for the program of artificial insemination, gave birth to a 6 lb 4 oz baby girl, on April 23, 1997, at the Hospital of the University of Southern California's School of Medicine, in Los Angeles, after IVF with a young anonymous donor's oocyte fertilized by her 60-year-old husband's sperm, and frozen embryo transfer.
7001630000000000000 63 years	2011-03-22 March 2011	Geessink, TinekeTineke Geessink	Anonymous sperm donor	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Netherlands Netherlands	Tineke Geessink of Harlingen, Netherlands, gave birth to daughter Meagan on March 22, 2011, at the age of 63. Single mother Tineke Geessink, currently the oldest woman in the Netherlands to ever give birth, explained to press that she had always longed for a child and chose to do so "whatever way she could". She was treated by the famous Italian doctor Severino Antinori, who implanted a donated oocyte fertilized with donated sperm; the Dutch limit for such treatments is at age 45. The announcement of Geessink's pregnancy sparked a debate about the ethics of late motherhood in the Netherlands. NB: The day she gave birth, in the same country, in Groningen, Devta W., a just 12-year-old girl gave birth to a daughter; she had been abused by her father Calix W. who was sentenced to 10 years of prison in April 2012.
7001637500000000000 63 years ¾	1996-11-07 November 1996	Keh, ArceliArceli Keh	Isagani Keh, her 57-year-old husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	United States United States	Arceli Keh of Highland, California, gave birth to a daughter, Cynthia, on November 7, 1996, at the age of 63 ¾. She and her husband, Isagani, had been married for 16 years when they decided to try to have a child. In order to gain admission to a fertility program that had an upper age limit of 55, Kehs told doctors that she was 50, although she was in fact 10 years older at the time. Five IVF transfer cycles were required before Arceli Keh successfully became pregnant. The ovum came from a donor and was fertilized with sperm from Arceli's husband.
7001640000000000000 64 years	2004-02-23 February 2004	Subramaniam, PapathiammalPapathiammal Subramaniam	Her 74-year-old husband, without son	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with her 30-year-old cousin's oocyte, and selected her husband's Y sperm	India India	Papathiammal Subramaniam gave birth to a son in Erode, Tamil Nadu, India on February 23, 2004, at the age of 64. The baby was delivered by Caesarean section and weighed 1.75 kg (3.8 lb). He was conceived through IVF, with an ovum donated by a 30-year-old Papathiammal's cousin and the sperm of Papathiammal's husband, a 74-year-old farmer until then remained without son.
7001640000000000000 64 years	2006-10-09 October 2006	Tiryaki, MemnuneMemnune Tiryaki	Omer Tiryaki, her 62-year-old husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Turkey Turkey	Memnune Tiryaki gave birth to her first child, son Yasin, in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 9, 2006, at the age of 64, after IVF treatment with oocytes donation, practiced in Turkish occupied section of Cyprus. Tiryaki and her 62-year-old husband were trying to have children for 35 years.
7001640000000000000 64 years	2009 2009	ZZ !Unidentified	Anonymous sperm donor	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Israel Israel	64-year-old Israeli woman gave birth to a daughter in 2009 after receiving a postmenopausal IVF with oocytes and sperm donations.
7001640000000000000 64 years	2010-07 July 2010	C., DominiqueDominique C.	Daniel C., her 60-year-old husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Switzerland Switzerland	64-year-old Swiss woman, from Oberlunkhofen, Canton of Argovie, western Zurich, Switzerland, whose husband was 60, gave birth to their first child, daughter Katerina, in July 2010, after IVF treatment with oocyte(s) donation. She went to Russia for IVF using donor eggs, after a miscarriage at the age of 61, because egg donation is illegal in Switzerland.
7001650000000000000 65 years	2003-04-09 April 2003	Mahapatra, SatyabhamaSatyabhama Mahapatra	Her husband Krishnachandra's niece's husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment using her husband's niece Veenarani's oocyte	India India	Satyabhama Mahapatra of Nayagarh, Odisha, India gave birth to a son on April 9, 2003, in Raipur, at the age of 65. The baby, weighing 6 lb 8 oz (2.95 kg), was born by Caesarean section. Mahapatra became pregnant through the help of IVF using an ovum donated by 26-year-old niece Veenarani Mahapatra of her husband Krishnachandra Mahapatra, and spermatozoons from the husband of the latter, Krishnachandra who can not himself fertilize his niece's oocyte. This was their first child, after 50 years of marriage. Doctors had attempted to persuade her and her husband to not have IVF. Satyabhama Mahapatra was also hospitalized for the last trimester of her pregnancy.
7001650000000000000 65 years	2010-03-01 March 2010	Hong, JenniferJennifer Hong	Egg donor's Vietnamese husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with Vietnamese donor's oocyte	Canada Canada	Jennifer Hong, Canadian of Vietnamese origin aged 65, gave birth to her second child, a son named Marvin, on March 1, 2010 in St. Paul's Hospital (Vancouver) in Canada. She used ovum and sperm donation from a Vietnamese couple in 2009, as her own husband, Huy Hong, being sterile. Of becoming a mother at age 65, she has said, "It doesn't matter how old you are. It just matters that I have a family which I love. My husband, Huy stood beside me all the way and was completely supportive of me." Her oldest child, son Dexter, was 19, born on November 20, 1990.[citation needed]
7001660000000000000 66 years	1999-04 April 1999	Stole, HarrietHarriet Stole	Ross Stoll, her son (gestational surrogate)	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with her daughter-in-law's oocytes	United Kingdom United Kingdom	Harriet Stole of Southgate, North London, gave birth to a son, Henry Thomas, in April 1999, aged 66, after agreeing to be a surrogate mother for her infertile daughter in-law, Lucy Handerson Stole. Lucy and her husband, Harriet's son, Ross Stole, had an egg fertilized and later implanted into the womb of Harriet. The child was born prematurely at 8 months, weighing 4 pounds 5 oz, but survived and is healthy.
7001660000000000000 66 years	2007-03 March 2007	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Austria Austria	An unnamed Austrian woman gave birth to her third child in early March 2007 at the age of 66 in Graz. She had previously given birth to another child, a girl weighing 6 lb (2.72 kg), in the middle of December 2002 at the age of 61. Her oldest child, a daughter, is 30. Both pregnancies over 60 were made possible by IVF with oocytes donation. The second was overseen by Severino Antinori. This may be the only known case in the world of two pregnancies and births at over age 60.
7001660000000000000 66 years	2009-05-28 May 2009	Adeney, Elizabeth "Lizzie"Elizabeth "Lizzie" Adeney	Ukrainian anonymous sperm donor	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	United Kingdom United Kingdom	Elizabeth "Lizzie" Adeney, aged 66, gave birth to a 5 lb 3oz son, Jolyon, in Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, England, on May 28, 2009. The child, who was conceived through IVF treatment in Ukraine from oocyte and sperm donations, was delivered by Caesarean section. 'It's not physical age that is important - It's how I feel inside. Some days I feel 39. Others, I feel 56.' Elizabeth had to resort to a sperm Ukrainian donor, her 71-year-old husband, Robert Adeney, refusing since 1999 to lend himself to her inclinations for assisted maternity, what has caused their quick divorce.
7001660000000000000 66 years	2010-06 June 2010	Devi Singh, BhateriBhateri Devi Singh	Deva Singh, her 64-year-old husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	India India	Bhateri Devi, previously childless Indian woman, gave birth to triplets, two boys and a girl, in Alewa, Haryana, North of Delhi, at the age of 66, after IVF treatment with oocytes donation. She is the oldest known woman to give birth to triplets.
7001660000000000000 66 years	2011-02 February 2011	Pidverbna, ValentynaValentyna Pidverbna	Anonymous sperm donor	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Ukraine Ukraine	Valentyna Pidverbna, unmarried woman, aged 66, gave birth to her first child, a girl weighing 3.3 kg and being 54 cm height, in Chernihiv, Ukraine in February 2011. She underwent three cycles of IVF treatment to achieve positive results.
7001660000000000000 66 years	2012-03-03 March 2012	ZZ !Unidentified	Anonymous Ukrainian sperm single donor	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Switzerland Switzerland	66-year-old Swiss Protestant pastor living in Grüsh, near Coire, in the eastern canton of Graubuenden, gave birth to two boys, Michael & Joshua, by Caesarean section on March 3, 2012, after receiving IVF treatment with eggs and sperm donor in Ukraine.
7001660709999999999 66 years, 7 months, 16 days	2005-01-16 January 2005	Iliescu, AdrianaAdriana Iliescu	Anonymous sperm single donor	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Romania Romania	Adriana Iliescu, born on May 31, 1938, gave birth to a daughter Eliza Maria at a hospital in Bucharest, Romania by Caesarean section, on January 16, 2005, at the age of 66 years, 7 months, 16 days. After undergoing IVF using donated eggs, Iliescu initially became pregnant with triplets, but one of the fetuses died in utero. The other two were delivered by caesarean section, but one of them was stillborn.
7001661100000000000 66 years, 11 months, 24 days	2006-12-29 December 2006	Bousada de Lara, Maria del CarmenMaria del Carmen Bousada de Lara	Two sperm donors selected from a catalog	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Spain Spain	Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara called Carmela Bousada (b. January 5, 1940, d. July 11, 2009, age 69), from Cadix, Spain, gave birth to twin sons, Pau and Christian, at Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona, Spain, on December 29, 2006, at the age of 66 years, 11 months, and 24 days — one week before her 67th birthday. The babies were delivered prematurely by Caesarean section and weighed 3.5 lb (1.6 kg) each. M.C. Bousada became pregnant after receiving IVF treatment with oocytes donation and two sperm donors selected from a catalog from a fertility clinic in Los Angeles, California, which claims that Bousada informed them that she was 55 (their maximum age for IVF treatment). Her family was unaware that she had gone to the United States to undergo fertility treatment prior to the births, and thought she was joking when she told them she was pregnant. Manuel Bousada de Lara, Maria del Carmen's older brother, criticized her decision, expressing concern over whether she would be able to raise children at her age. In response to such concerns, Bousada stated, "My mum lived to be 101 and there's no reason I couldn't do the same". Maria died on July 11, 2009 from stomach cancer, which she developed soon after giving birth to her twins ; her sons were only 2 ½ years old then.
7001670000000000000 67 years	2006 2006	ZZ !Unidentified	Anonymous sperm donor	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro	A Serbian woman gave birth in 2006 by Caesarean section to a daughter conceived by postmenopausal IVF treatment, with ovum and sperm donors.
7001690000000000000 69 years	1863-01 January 1863	ZZ !Unidentified	Her 74-year-old husband	Natural conception	United States United States	Dr. Wayne McCarthy reported the case of a 69-year-old woman who had conceived naturally and gave birth in January 1863 to a son of her 74-year-old husband, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The veracity of this case is, quite naturally, very questionable.
7001690000000000000 69 years	1997 1997	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	Italy Italy	An Italian woman gave birth in 1997 by Caesarean section to a daughter conceived by postmenopausal IVF treatment, with oocyte donation fertilized by her husband's sperm.
7001700000000000000 70 years	1762 1762	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	Natural conception	Switzerland Switzerland	Albrecht von Haller (October 16, 1708 – December 12, 1777), German Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet, reported the case of a woman who had given birth in 1762 to a son naturally conceived with her husband at the already advanced age of 70 years.
7001700000000000000 70 years	1880 1880	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	Natural conception	Germany Germany	Dr Schoepfer reported the case of a German woman who became mother of a daughter in 1880 at the age of 70. This report is doubtful.
7001700000000000000 70 years	1897 1897	ZZ !Unidentified	The young man who drove her home one evening	Natural conception	France France	A case reported in the Parisian Landernau, but the subject of controversy, that of a woman, in Garches, west of the French capital, who became mother of a son in 1897 at the incredible age of 70, after a night spent with a young man who drove her home after their evening of libation.
7001700000000000000 70 years	2008-06-27 June 2008	Panwar, OmkariOmkari Panwar	Charan Singh Panwar, her 77-year-old husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	India India	Omkari Panwar gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, via emergency Caesarean section, on June 27, 2008, at the age of 70. The babies weighed 2 pounds each. Omkari became pregnant through IVF treatment with a single oocytes donor, process which she and her husband pursued in order to produce a male heir. Omkari has two adult daughters and five grandchildren. However, Omkari doesn't have a birth certificate, her age has been estimated by her claim that she was 9 years old when the British Raj left India in 1947. In response to hearing that she'd possibly broken the record for world's oldest mother, Omkari stated, "If I am the world's oldest mother it means nothing to me. I just want to see my new babies and care for them while I am still able."
7001700000000000000 70 years	2008-11 November 2008	Devi Lohan, RajoRajo Devi Lohan	Baba Ral "Balla" Lohan, her 71-year-old husband	Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation	India India	Rajo Devi Lohan gave birth to a daughter, Naveen, at the age of 70. Lohan's health soon deteriorated and she claimed she had not been informed of any dangers. Her doctor said, "Even though Rajo's health is deteriorating, at least she will die in peace. She doesn't have to face the stigma of being barren. She had an ovarian cyst that was causing her problems but that has now been removed. The IVF treatment is completely safe. Rajo is an old woman and her life expectancy was only about five to seven years."
7001720000000000000 72 years	1776-05-15 May 1776	Ellis, EllenEllen Ellis	Her husband	Natural conception	Wales Wales	Mrs. Ellen Ellis supposedly gave birth to her 13th child, a boy, on 15 May 1776, in Clwyd, Wales. She was 72 at the time, and in her 46th year of marriage. The child was stillborn. The case is nevertheless highly questionable.
7001730000000000000 73 years	1865 1865	ZZ !Unidentified	Her husband	Natural conception	United States United States	Dr Mayham reported the case of a 73-year-old mother in United States near 1865.
7001730000000000000 73 years	1941-10 October 1941	Mrs Steve Pace !Pace	Steve Pace, her husband	Natural conception	United States United States	Mrs Steve Pace, of Rose Hill, Virginia, is reported have given birth to her 17th child, a boy, in October 1941, at the extreme age of 73. She was then already mother of 16 children, whose the last was born in 1918, twenty-three years earlier.

Debate

Pregnancies among older women have been a subject of controversy and debate. Some argue against motherhood late in life on the basis of the health risks involved, or out of concern that an older mother might not be able or around to care for a child as she ages, while others contend that having a child is a fundamental right and that it is commitment to a child's wellbeing, not the parents' ages, that matters.

A survey of attitudes towards pregnancy over age 50 among Australians found the 54.6% believed it was acceptable for a postmenopausal woman to have her own eggs transferred and that 37.9% believed it was acceptable for a postmenopausal women to receive donated ova or embryos.

Governments have sometimes taken actions to regulate or restrict later-in-life childbearing. In the 1990s, France approved a bill which prohibited postmenopausal pregnancy, which the French Minister of Health at the time, Philippe Douste-Blazy, said was "...immoral as well as dangerous to the health of mother and child". In Italy, the Association of Medical Practitioners and Dentists prevented its members from providing women aged 50 and over with fertility treatment. Britain's then-Secretary of State for Health, Virginia Bottomley, stated, "Women do not have the right to have a child; the child has a right to a suitable home". However, in 2005, age restrictions on IVF in the United Kingdom were officially withdrawn.

Legal restrictions are only one of the barriers confronting women seeking IVF, as many fertility clinics and hospitals set age limits of their own.

See also

• Mother
• Age and female fertility
• Pregnancy
• Sexuality in older age
• Teenage pregnancy
• List of youngest birth mothers