66-Year Old Woman To Give Birth
May 19, 2009 by Cherie Burbach
Filed under Women's Health
Is it a miracle or a mistake? That’s the question some are asking, now that 66-year old Elizabeth Adeney is about to give birth next month. Is this a good idea? Will she be able to have the energy required to raise a baby?
Time will see. I personally would rather see a successful woman who has the maturity to take care of a child do it before a woman with six kids already and no job! Still, as one person points out, Adeney will be 85-years old when her child is a teenager.
Adeney, for her part, has said that “to be a mother, all that matters is how old you feel on the inside. And she claimed she is young and fit and feels like she is 39 years old.” Adeney flew to the Ukraine to get IVF, as most doctors in the U.S. and England will not treat a woman past the age of 50.
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Really! that’s a great news indeed. Nice to hear someones wish got fulfilled…
I myself am 36 and wanting to have a child, yet my biggest fear is precisely that I will be 57 when my child is a 20 year old and in my mind a grown adult able to fend for him/herself. It’s not about how good I feel or how health I am now but its about the responsibility to care for a defenseless individual that will be impacted by the world and will impact the world him/herself. Besides that there is the age gap difference, in present day parent and child can hardly relate to one another when there is 1 generations in between them at most, but 2 that is 60+ years…imaging the difference they have nothing in common. I see the difference between my parents and I and my friends and their parents. My parents had me when they where in their mid 30s while some of my friends where born when their parents where in their early to mid 20s. They act like buds go out clubbing together, while I had to beg my parents to let me go out with my friends to the mall…see when they where young girls did not go out of the house without their parents. Two very different worlds in just 10 years difference between my parents and my friends parents.
I wish Eli all the best so that she will deliver a healthy baby regardless of boy or girl.
I do believe it is not be easy for her to raise the child and I believe that she must have the courage to face the challenge, which otherwise she wouldn’t take up.
Here, I would like to say that she is not alone and lots of people are looking forward for the good news.
Wish everyone of you have a blessed day,