An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
This is Wrong!!
Not only is this wrong, it’s just plain selfish.
A 72-year-old woman who has already spent $62,000 on fertility treatments in an effort to give birth is about to try again.
If successful with what will be her seventh course of in vitro fertilization, Jenny Brown will become the world’s oldest mother.
The world’s oldest mother was Maria del Carmen Bousada Lara, who gave birth to twin boys seven days before her 67th birthday in 2006. Bousada died Saturday of breast cancer, sparking fears that the disease was triggered by the hormones she used to facilitate her pregnancy.
“Any mother can die at any age,” said Brown, a former academic who has never had a long-term partner. “I hope to live to 100, but I’ll ask one of my younger friends to be a guardian in case.”
Brown, who lives in London, said she had always wanted a child but spent her younger years devoted to academics, achieving degrees in medical sciences and zoology.
“I’d always had it in the back of my mind that when the time was right I’d like to have a child,’ she said. “But my studies meant that children kept getting delayed. The right time finally came in my early 50s and since then I’ve been attempting — and failing — with IVF.”
First of all, if you’ve been trying for that many years and spending that much money and it still hasn’t happened, dontcha think that maybe it’s not meant to be??
Secondly…are you NUTS??? How perfectly selfish can one person be? Say she has a baby while still 72. Can you imagine a 10 year old with an 82 year old mother? If, of course, she’s still alive? Say she lives to be 100 – the child will lose his/her mother before the age of 30. And let’s also think about this…even if she does live a “reasonably long” life, will she be healthy, or will this child have a mother who requires nursing care or some such. This is just ridiculous.
Third, what the HELL kind of doctor would even consider something like this? She’s 72 YEARS OLD!! And yes, I know plenty of folks who at that age are fit and happy, but let’s get serious folks…a 72 year old who thinks she can take care of an infant, a toddler, a pre-teen??
The world has truly gone crazy.
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…and yet, when some setptugenarian knocks up his trophy wife, everyone thinks that’s cute.
Some might, but I’m not one of them. I figure the trophy wife is in it for the security/money, and the rich dude is in it for ego…whatever the reason, it’s wrong…
Women were not built to have children after a certain age, and that age is when their bods tells them so! This is so much crap, it’s down right disgusting.