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Britain's Oldest Mum Still Old, Still a Mum

Posted by Madeline Holler

A British newspaper reports that the woman who became the country’s oldest to give birth struggled to hold her now 18-month-old son. See! At 63, she’s too old to properly raise and care for a young child. She’s struggling under his weight! Oh. Like other mothers of squirmy toddlers. Fine.

Still, since grandma-aged moms are breeding  like rabbits anymore, it’s worth revisiting the sordid details of this U.K. pioneer.

Patricia Rushbrook, a child psychiatrist, gave birth to her son JJ last summer to become the oldest mother in her country. She conceived the boy after an IVF procedure in Russia, where there is no upper age limit for fertility patients.

She has three grown children, whom she raised with her deceased first husband. JJ is a first child for his father.

Come on. When is something bad going to happen so we can go back to criticizing old people who have babies? Well, there’s always the 67-year-old lady in Spain who cashed out her retirement and used the funds to conceive twins. Surely that’s a disaster that will prove a point. Right?


Comments

 

wordnash said:

I am soooo done and I'm 32. DONE! You couldn't convince me to even babysit my grands, once I have them, if I ever do. Well, fine, I'll babysit ... but no part- or full-time child care. Call me mean or, more realistically, burnt out. Being a grandma is about wisdom and maybe spoiling ... not continuing to overpopulate.

November 2, 2007 3:33 PM
 

Autumn said:

I cannot even imagine teh damage to the genes that child inherited from those two old people.  Nature makes us stop having kids at a certain age for a really good reason.  Now if she had borne a child from a donated embryo from a young couple I see no problem with that.  But if she has a stroke next year who will care for him?  

November 2, 2007 7:57 PM

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