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steve2470

(37,457 posts) Fri Oct 21, 2016, 03:28 PM Oct 2016

62-year-old woman in Spain gives birth to third child

http://www.sfgate.com/news/medical/article/62-year-old-woman-in-Spain-gives-birth-to-third-9982879.php

MADRID (AP) — A 62-year-old Spanish woman has given birth to a healthy girl and encourages women in their later years to imitate her if they want to.

Lina Alvarez left the Lucus Augusti Hospital in the northwestern city of Lugo on Tuesday with her third child in her arms, saying she felt wonderful.

She said baby Lina, born Oct. 10, was in perfect health. The 2.4-kilogram (5.3-pound) Lina was born by cesarean section.

Alvarez's first child, now 27, was born with cerebral palsy. Her second child is now 10. Her second and third pregnancies were through in-vitro fertilization treatment.

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62-year-old woman in Spain gives birth to third child (Original Post) steve2470 Oct 2016 OP

I am curious if they were in vitro with donor eggs - especially since the first pregnancy naturally Pachamama Oct 2016 #1

My guess is that this baby, and probably her 10 year old, PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2016 #3

No thanks Zing Zing Zingbah Oct 2016 #2

Choose your time Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2016 #4

Pachamama

(16,887 posts)

1. I am curious if they were in vitro with donor eggs - especially since the first pregnancy naturally

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 03:41 PM

Oct 2016

....at 35 resulted in a child with cerebral palsy...

People can be a certain age chronologically but physically be younger, especially if healthy and genetic disposition. But sadly, our ovaries and the eggs do age and genetically run a higher risk at older ages. Just curious. Love science. Love our biology.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,861 posts)

3. My guess is that this baby, and probably her 10 year old,

Reply to Pachamama (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 06:13 PM

Oct 2016

would almost have to have been from donor eggs. From what I think I know of human female biology.

Zing Zing Zingbah

(6,496 posts)

2. No thanks

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 04:51 PM

Oct 2016

My fifties and sixties are going to be my time again because my kids will be grown up and I'm really, really looking forward to that.

Sen. Walter Sobchak

(8,692 posts)

4. Choose your time

Reply to Zing Zing Zingbah (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 06:20 PM

Oct 2016

My parents spent twenty five years together doing whatever happened to amuse them before I was conceived, when my younger brother was born my mother was among the oldest woman at the time to have naturally given birth in California.

They said it was a strange experience at times but they would never have traded her career or those years they had together as a couple just to have popped me and my brother out sooner.

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