Comments on: 60-Year-Old Woman Gives Birth To Twins

N.J. Psychologist Says She Wants Women To Feel Empowered To Pursue Goals Despite Age

[phoenix1218]

women older than 35 & those over 40 %u2013 are at risk for developing complications during pregnancy which include gestational diabetes, pre-eclampsia, intrauterine growth retardation, pre-term labor & postpartum bleeding. The chance of needing a C-section is increased. For women over 50 (especially those who get pregnant using donor eggs) risk of diabetes & pre-eclampsia, for example, can be as high as 50%. It's harder to get pregnant in your 40's & up it is when you're most likely to carry more than 1 kid which is a high-risk pregnancy w/out medical science involved.

[itwasntme000]

Over population is not the number one problem on this planet. Think again.

I just have one question for Mrs. Birnbaum. Since, according to you, we are living longer and redefining age, are you willing to give up any social security benefits? I mean, if 60 is the new 40, are you willing to hold off on benefits for another 20 years? Doubt it.
Posted by rohink at 01:57 PM : May 24, 2007

umm think again rohink
So in your fantasy little world the United States is the whole world???? We are a small portion of the world geneous.

I really could care less but if you need to go to a hospital for someone to use a turkey baster to get you pregnant you should'nt be having kids. be it you are 80 years old or 15 years old... Listen to your body, sometimes it helps you stop doing something that is &^%&^%^in *&^$^%$(^&....

[yoopermom]

superchez1 said it best...

[angelachevy]

superchez1 - AMEN!!! :-)

[phoenix1218]

For younger women, the chance of miscarriage is about 15 percent. In other words, one in eight pregnancies ends in miscarriage. At 35 the rate rises to one in four, and at 40 the miscarriage rate is almost one in three.

If she wants to deal with the VERY HIGH risk of miscarriage, let her do it. I am 27 and misscarried last year. I would NOT put myself in that position at THAT age.

[angelachevy]

Phoenix1218,
To compare a couple who wants to have a child via medical science with a person who deals drugs proves you really have no clue what you are talking about. I'm sure the million plus people who have gone through successful IVFs would disagree with your ignorant opinion. So what if she's 60?!?! It doesn't matter how young or old you are to bear a child. It's their right and they did nothing wrong! Even if the couple were in their early 20s there's no guarantee that they will live until they are old. We could all go anyday. Leave the judgements to God and stop preaching things you don't understand! Oh yea, and mind your own business and get a life as bebebe333 stated earlier!

[arthurcl1]

Selfish! Wait's until she is 60 to have a baby! They could have come out deformed or mongols and mother could have died on the surgery table and she won't live to see kids grow as she is 70's won't be able to run around with babies!

[jetlizhan]

sorry if this offends anyone out there - but this is ridiculous. no woman should have a baby at age 60! for Heaven's sake, think of the child - you could kick the bucket before he's 10 and then what? farmed out to family, etc. to me this was a very selfish decision on her part.

[phoenix1218]

Angela Chevy,
People have the freedom of choice given to them by GOD. These people chose to exercise that right. Going by your statement nothing would happen without GOD allowing it, which is not true. GOD does not allow the drug dealers to deal to young kids. GOD does not allow an irate husband to beat his kids. GOD does not allow people to kill people. GOD does not allow IVF to work. That is medical science and these people chose to use medical science to get pregnant.

If those children were not meant to be, then God would have not allowed the IVF to work. Invitro Fertilization procedures have a small percentage of success anyway, so for it to work this easily and produce twins.... it's completely OBVIOUS they were meant to be or they would not exist.
Sad how ignorant people can be and want to judge others especially if they have NOT been through this themselves! I'm happy that that couple were able to have more children. Good for them! Until YOU have lived through it YOURSELF, don't judge them because you really have no clue what you are talking about. Posted by AngelaChevy

[grammawhamma]

This woman does not sound too mentaly stable to me due to some of her comments. Who me?? Oh yeah, I'm 60 not the 40 year old I feel like. And come on...her very elderly parents would still be alive today if not for medical negligence. Give me a break!! She should be playing with her grandkids if she has any. Or she could have applied to be a foster mom if she thought her 6 year old needed companions. I wonder how young she will feel when the twins turn into rebelious teenagers!! In another article I read it quoted her adult daughter as being upset about her new siblings. The daughter might end up being the one raising them.

[swetzie1]

I'm 60. My youngest child is 25. I am a grandmother. I work full time. I get tired!!! I can't imagine starting all over again, and with twins!! Good luck to her when the inevitable physical decline of aging sets in, as it soon will...

[angelachevy]

If those children were not meant to be, then God would have not allowed the IVF to work. Invitro Fertilization procedures have a small percentage of success anyway, so for it to work this easily and produce twins.... it's completely OBVIOUS they were meant to be or they would not exist.
Sad how ignorant people can be and want to judge others especially if they have NOT been through this themselves! I'm happy that that couple were able to have more children. Good for them! Until YOU have lived through it YOURSELF, don't judge them because you really have no clue what you are talking about.

[angelachevy]

If those children were not meant to be, then God would have not allowed the IVF to work. Invitro Fertilization procedures have a small percentage of success anyway, so for it to work this easily and produce twins.... it's completely OBVIOUS they were meant to be or they would not exist.
Sad how ignorant people can be and want to judge others especially if they have NOT been through this themselves! I'm happy that that couple were able to have more children. Good for them! Until YOU have lived through it YOURSELF, don't judge them because you really have no clue what you are talking about.

[phoenix1218]

Wanting siblings for a 6 yr old isn't selfish but to have those children knowing that the 6 yr old will be left to care for the twins because the parents are too infirm to care for them IS what is selfish. The parents will not live till these boys graduate high school but they WILL be alone. Although the same woman carried them all to term, only the first 3 kids are hers biologically. The 6 yr old was born when the woman was 54 & the twins when she was 60. Eggs aren't viable at that age. Who's to say that her biological Kids will WANT to take care of the kids when their parents die? So they very well could be alone. At that age the parents may be able to take care of the kids for a time but it won't last & care of the twins will fall to the 6 yr old. How fair is that? If GOD wanted her to have children then it would've happened naturally, NOT through medical science & a petri dish.

Wanting siblings for her 6 year old child is not a selfish act...Even if the parents don't live to see them graduate from high school, at least they will not be alone since they already have three siblings! And the six year old will not be alone either! If people want to have children at that age, for their own personal reasons, it's obvious they are going to take care of them, or they wouldn't go through such trouble unlike so many unwanted pregancies...Obviously God wanted her to have more children or he would not have enabled to IVF to work!...Posted by AngelaChevy

[rohink-2009]

Over population is the number one problem on the planet. Now that the natural balance of nature is thrown off by all of this brave new world meddling, the problem will only get worse.
Posted by MizQue

Over population is not the number one problem on this planet. Think again.

I just have one question for Mrs. Birnbaum. Since, according to you, we are living longer and redefining age, are you willing to give up any social security benefits? I mean, if 60 is the new 40, are you willing to hold off on benefits for another 20 years? Doubt it.

[angelachevy]

It's not our job to decide if someone is too old to have a child. It's up to God and God only! Obviously, God wanted this couple to be parents again or 'he' would have prevented the IVF from working. :^

[juliemd]

Morman moron;
"God" intends for us to do what brings love and light into this world. These parents obviously want and love these babies. Leave your 17th century mentality on a barren cliff in Utah somewhere, ok.

[wiccantexan]

This is not what God intended for a morally sound woman to do to herself at that age.
Posted by mormonman1 at 01:15 PM : May 24, 2007

If my memory serves me correctly, the oldest woman to conceive naturally (no medical intervention) and successfully give birth was 59.

[cryonbrian]

White folks have too much time on their hands! LOL

It looks from the caption as though it was her husband, Ken, who delivered the twins at the age of 60. That would be even more remarkable!