World's oldest mother, 69, dies, leaves two year old twins.

[Syt]

BBC: World's oldest mother dies at 69

A Spanish woman who became the world's oldest new mother when she gave birth in 2006 to twin boys at the age of 66 has died, her family has said.

The brother of Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara told the paper Diario de Cadiz she passed away on Saturday, aged 69.

It said she had been diagnosed with cancer shortly after giving birth.

In 2007, Ms Bousada de Lara said she had lied about her age to doctors at a fertility clinic in California to get IVF treatment, telling them she was 55.

Ms Bousada de Lara argued that there was no reason to believe she would not have as long a life as her mother, who died at the age of 101. She even joked that she might live to see her grandchildren.

She also insisted that if she died prematurely her sons Christian and Pau, who are now two years old, would never be alone.

"There are lots of young people in our family," she added.

When the twins were born in Barcelona on 29 December 2006, Ms Bousada de Lara was aged 66 years 358 days, 130 days older than Romanian Adriana Iliescu, who gave birth in 2005 to a baby girl.

And:
Telegraph: Woman, 72, tries to have IVF baby

Miss Brown spent the money in the United States and Italy trying to conceive and is now prepared to travel abroad again to clinics that still offer IVF treatment to women her age, Closer magazine said.

If she is successful with what will be her seventh course of IVF she will become the oldest mother in the world.

Miss Brown said: "Any mother can die at any age. Look at Jade Goody. I hope to live to 100, but I'll ask one of my younger friends to be a guardian in case.

"People ask me how a child would feel having a mum of my age. I hope they'll find it special. I'll tell them I tried for a long time, and how wonderful it was to have them.

"I know it'll be hard work. It'll change my life completely and I'm prepared for that."

Miss Brown, who lives in London, said she had always wanted a child but spent her younger years devoted to achieving degrees in medical sciences and zoology.

She said: "I'd always had it in the back of my mind that when the time was right I'd like to have a child.

"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."

I'm eagerly awaiting stories about women trying to become the world's first octogenerian octomom.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Are children now the toy poodles for the rich and shallow?

[Gambrinus]

Nott Hott

Thanks to science, it's never to late to become a bad mother. :pinchL

[Valmy]

With Europes aging and dying population they need all the potential mothers they can get.

We will make Martinus raise the children once their elderly mother dies.

[DGuller]

We will make Martinus raise the children once their elderly mother dies.

Now that's really making the best of two bad situations.

[Neil]

With Europes aging and dying population they need all the potential mothers they can get.

We will make Martinus raise the children once their elderly mother dies.

Child rape isn't funny.

[DisturbedPervert]

The right time finally came in my early 50s and since then I've been attempting and failing with IVF.

You could have adopted and raised one already.

[Syt]

The right time finally came in my early 50s and since then I've been attempting and failing with IVF.

You could have adopted and raised one already.

Dunno about other countries, but Germany used to have an age cap of 40 for prospective adopters.

[DisturbedPervert]

Dunno about other countries, but Germany used to have an age cap of 40 for prospective adopters.

Well, she was willing to travel all over the world for fertility treatment, I'm sure she could have found someplace that would let her adopt.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Its about vanity and ego.  Having a little toy.  When fancy cars and mink stoles just aren't enough to impress everyone with your wealth.

[garbon]

Perhaps it is attempted suicide by childbirth.

[Savonarola]

Thanks to science, it's never to late to become a bad mother. :pinchL

I've been watching Shaft in Africa in order to pick up pointers.   

[Strix]

It's probably cheaper the older you get. I mean, seriously, they can eat the same foods and probably get a discount on a Depends/Huggies combo pack of diapers.

[Habsburg]

mink stoles just aren't enough.

These words strung together are unpossible.


Now all of you stop being Eugenicists.

[Gambrinus]

Perhaps it is attempted suicide by childbirth.

In this case it's possible that it was suicide, but it seems unattempted. Childbearing starts all kinds of hormones (not to mention the stuff she was pumped full of) and it isn't totally unlikely it actually caused the cancer, it would be easier to tell if we knew what kind of cancer it was.