Britain's oldest mother

[angel_kohaku]

http://www.msn.co.uk/health/oldestmother/

I don't care how loved the child is going to be, how wrong the critics are or how beautiful a thing a baby is, it's most blatantly unnatural.

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I wanna be an anarchist, get pissed, destroy

[Bonnie]

When the child is of school age the other children will mock the child, and the parents of the other children will look down on the mother.
-Curtis, Essex

No they won't. I never mocked the other kids for livign with grandparents, elderly aunts, or having older parents.

Women go through the menopause for a reason - it's nature's way of telling us that it's time to stop having children... What 63-year-old wants sleepless nights? She'll be looking after a toddler when she should be retiring. This is wrong and should not be allowed.
- Maureen, Scotland

This woman hasn't gone through menopause! Nature has told her that she can still have children, so Maureen's nature argument is moot. This 63 year old wants sleepless nights, fact. Do you know how many grandmothers, nannies, foster carers or whatever look after children well past retirement age? As for it not being allowed, if it is someting she wants to do and is capable of doing, who is the state to say who is allowed to have children?!

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I love cheese.

[angel_kohaku]

Quoting Bonnie from 23:24, 4th May 2006
This woman hasn't gone through menopause! Nature has told her that she can still have children

Correction, IVF has told her she can still have children

[hr]

I wanna be an anarchist, get pissed, destroy

[DrAlex]

Just out of curiosity, with respect to IVF, are the risks of the kid being born trisonomic still as high as they usually are for women that old?

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[maz]

I don't know, but I'm presuming she also had HRT to prevent the menopause. There's something slightly wrong about it all. Can you imagine an 80 year old having fights with a petulant 17 year old about staying out all night. That's if she lives that long. It's crazy. I don't think there is much need for it, she has already had 2 kids, who are old enough to be providing her with grandchildren if she really has a need to spoil a child or something. I'm not sure childbirth is something that slightly rickety old bones/muscles will deal with well either. Although I presume she'll be having a caesarian.

[hr]

Well, I bet that you look good on the dancefloor

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[the Empress]

Why couldn't she just adopt an older child? Or would adoption laws be too stringent? Unless she craves the first few years of babyhood, I would have thought adoption a better way forward . .

[flarewearer]

My mum's only 54. Please dopn't giver her ideas!

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[the reason for the word w]

When I was in kindergarten there was this child that was always picked up by a woman. One day I said to my Mum very loudly: Look, that girl is always being picked up by her gran! It was indeed her mother... so the child and mother have ignorant, loud-mouthed children like I myself once was one to look forward to

[hr]

Are you a terrorist?
- Depends! Are you terrified?

[novium]

I don't think it is fair to the child. When they're 20, their mom will be 83. eighty-three.

Additionally, why the extraordinary measures when there are kids that need homes?


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sed tamen ira procul absit, cum qua nihil recte fieri, nihil considerate potest.

[flarewearer]

Is it any more unfair than a child born to a drugaddict welfare queen mother who will be dead by the time the child is 20 too?

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[novium]

it just seems selfish in an odd way to me.

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sed tamen ira procul absit, cum qua nihil recte fieri, nihil considerate potest.

[Smith]

doesn't interest me in the slightest, I'm sure when the mother dies the (MUCH) older siblings will gladly take their new brother or sister in.

[hr]

Cake, and fine wine.

[Steveo]

Quoting flarewearer from 01:57, 5th May 2006
Is it any more unfair than a child born to a drugaddict welfare queen mother who will be dead by the time the child is 20 too?

No, it's not, but the drug addict wouldn't get IVF treatment.

The fact is, she's too old.

[hr]

Set your goals way too high so I can laugh when you fail.

[Princess Mary]

I posted a comment, don't know if it'll show on the site, though.

It doesn't bother me how old this lady is, if she can take care of that baby, good luck to her.

[Preacher's Kid]

Quoting novium from 01:51, 5th May 2006
I don't think it is fair to the child. When they're 20, their mom will be 83. eighty-three.

I was born in 1986 when my father was 58-- he'll therefore be nearly 78 when I turn 20 this year. Our relationship is fantastic and, as he often says, having younger children at such an age has kept him very vital and active. He still works. He still does everything (and more) much less healthy fathers do in our neighborhood.

We may have good genes I suppose, but the kids (I have a slightly older sister) never hurt. The love is there, and that is what's important-- in fact, he's outlived the parents of a number of my peers.

Good on you, mother!

[Al]

What I find quite interesting is that she keeps referring to "the child". She doesn't seem to refer to it as her child.

[Rufus]

Quoting Preacher's Kid from 17:11, 5th May 2006
The love is there, and that is what's important
Good on you, mother!

Amen, brother.

[thebrookster]

Hum, well we keep being told that the world is overpopulated anyway, so what difference will one more make!