“I’m a private person and while I appreciate there may be some publicity I will just ignore it.

“This has been a very personal decision.”

She is scheduled to give birth via c-section due to possible complications with her age.

One of the chief health risks to older mothers is pre-eclampsia, which can lead to blood clots and serious complications, or even death.

However, the condition, which causes high blood pressure, can be detected by regular checks.

She hopes that by having children she will have someone to inherit her fortune. Now even though she is 66 years old she is not the oldest woman to give birth. Congrats to the mom-to-be.

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Specialists in the field say that in as little as two decades, infertility may be a thing of the past.

“My belief is that in twenty years, no couple will be unable to have a baby…genetically,” Dr. Samuel Wood, an infertility doctor in San Diego, told Frontline “except for the few on the extremes of reproductive life.”

That doesn’t mean current procedures are hugely accurate. In fact, many infertile couples don’t find a solution to their conditions.
“It makes this field hard because you know with every case that you take on, there is at least as good a chance of failure as success,” says Dr. Mark Sauer, a specialist in male infertility at Columbia University, told the program. “There’s a heavy price, not just emotional, but also financial, that these couples have to pay to reach that point where they either walk away pregnant, or not.”

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