Talk:Pregnancy over age 50

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Oldest biological mother[edit]

Who is the world's oldest established genetic mother i.e. using her own eggs? From this list it appears to be Aracelia Garcia at 54. Fionah 09:15, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not certain. Of course, a woman can undergo in-vitro fertilization using her own eggs, so, unless it says so explicitly, it doesn't necessarily mean that those women who are said to have become pregnant as a result of IVF treatments did so by using donor eggs — at least for women in the early-to-mid 50s bracket, due to later onset of menopause. A good place to look for candidates for the oldest biological mother would perhaps be world records from the period before IVF (1978) and other fertility treatments. -Severa (!!!) 09:33, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It would be helpful if we can make this more clear. Sylvain1972 15:52, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
According to the Guinness Book Of World Records, the oldest woman on record to have conceived with her own egg and carried a baby to term was 57 years and 120 days old. The Portland, Oregon woman gave birth to a daughter in 1956 long before medicine figured out a way to reset the clock using donor eggs. There have since been many women age 57 giving birth with their own eggs not in the Guinnes Book of World Records. It is hard to know just who it may be.
I also found: Pregnancy after fifty: profile and pregnancy outcome in a series of elderly multigravidae. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Leicester, UK. The median age at booking was 52 (range 51-59 years) and the median parity was nine.
However, I have collected stories of women having spontaneous pregnancies up to their 60's, but only have their word, nothing official to prove it.

Pregnancy Stories By Age [1] --Scarletrosepetals (talk) 16:01, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Article retitle?[edit]

I think that this article has expanded beyond a simple list: it now has an introduction which explains some medical concerns and also a "Debate" section. What do you think of potential titles such as "Pregnancy among women over age 50" or "Pregnancy over age 50?" -Severa (!!!) 09:50, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

over age 35 is associated with ...[edit]

In the first couple sentences of this article we find: "Pregnancy over age 35 is associated with increased risks." Firstly, this has no citation, and that should be enough to think about erasing it. Secondly, it's one of those statements which are easy to say and hard to disprove. Risks of what? and especially, how much higher?

Let us call to mind that when we say that, for example, "a risk doubles", it sounds very important, but if this could mean passing from 0.0001% to 0.0002% OR passing from 5% to 10%, and the two are VERY different concerning impact on the population.

I think these "easy to say" and non-cited statements which only create unjustified alarm are not in the Wikispirit. Thanks, S.PECA

Complications of age and pregnancy.[edit]

The article states that "the risk of genetic defects (for offspring of older men) is greatly increased due to the paternal age effect". This sentence is linked to the Wikipedia article on "paternal age effect" but that article does not seem to substantiate "greatly increased" at all. Please reference a specific section of the article which substantiates "greatly increased" or some other reliable source. The statement following this, "Pregnancy over age 40 is associated with increased risks" is exceptionally vague. Increased risks to who, mother, child, father, doctor? What kind of risks? Physical, mental, financial? How increased? a little, some, a lot? This claim also needs a reliable source. Rgr09 (talk) 05:50, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Article Needed - Natural Fertility Rates by Age[edit]

A good wikipedia article would be rates of natural fertility by age. Showing a graph for each year not just 45-49, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.175.124.153 (talk) 01:05, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Verification/cites for after-50 mothers in table[edit]

This page does a major disservice to readers. With flimsy and in some cases nonexistent citations to sources, it perpetuates the myth that women's fertility can reasonably be expected to last well into one's 40s and beyond, whereas a cursory search on PubMed or in gynecology-related medical journals would quickly disabuse you of that notion. The cites for most of the mothers listed in the table do nothing to confirm what is--given the topic of this page--the KEY FACT listed: whether the child was conceived with the mother's own egg at her current age (see (2) below for an explanation of what I mean by "at her current age"). Some of the mothers listed don't even have cites (e.g., Annie Leibovitz), so I have to question why they were included at all.

Most of the mothers reported as natural conception or own-egg IVF are suspect for three simple reasons:

(1) As a practical matter, we cannot verify these claims. Most people who use IVF, much less egg donors/sperm donors, are secretive or at least nonpublic about how their children were conceived (by nonpublic I mean their family and friends may know, but they don't usually announce it to the world). We have no way of verifying claims that a child was conceived naturally, or through IVF with the mother's eggs, because the truth is in the woman's medical records and we cannot access those.

(2) Women who give birth using their own eggs are not necessarily using, for lack of a better word, "current" eggs. A good IVF cycle produces more eggs than you can use; after fertilization the unused ones are frozen for future use. I've seen articles--though again, this can't be confirmed (see reason (1) above)--stating that the twins Celine Dion had at 41 were from embryos frozen during an IVF cycle that she did when she was 35. Embryo freezing has been around since the 1980s and it is entirely possible that some of these mothers over 50 are using embryos frozen when they were still fertile.

(3) The page's list of mothers over 50 who allegedly gave birth through IVF with their own eggs are inherently suspect for three reasons: (i) the "current egg vs. embryo frozen years earlier" issue above--this means that even in the unlikely event that we somehow confirm that she used IVF and her own eggs, we don't know how old she was when she originally produced the egg and thus these listings are at best misleading to the extent they imply that a woman of X age was still fertile; (ii) the fact that apart from one alleged success in a 49-year-old (egg frozen at 48), claimed by the New Hope Fertility Center[1] but to my knowledge not published in a peer-reviewed journal, there has NEVER been a successful IVF in any woman over 46 using her own current eggs. Attempts in that age group have had such dismal results that virtually all clinics in the US, Canada and throughout the EU impose a cutoff of between 42 and 46 years of age,[2] after which they will not treat women with their own eggs because the chance of success is slim to none; especially in the US, where clinics often charge $15,000-$25,000 per attempt, there is a financial incentive for clinics to do IVF on all willing patients, but they still impose age limits because after a certain point own-egg IVF simply does not work.

(iii) Clinics in India (where at least one listed post-50 IVF mother allegedly got pregnant with her own eggs) are notorious for switching eggs and/or sperm without telling the recipients, simply to increase their success rates and customer satisfaction. A nicer way to put that, perhaps, is that Indian clinics "have more mixups" than clinics in Europe and America (for instance: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/985936--after-6-years-and-fertility-mixup-surrogate-twin-can-come-home).

Moreover, the listed natural births that took place in conservative/traditional cultures or in the US/EU prior to 1980-1990 or so also have a built-in weakness: until it became socially acceptable for women to have sex and children out of wedlock, it was not uncommon for the mother of the pregnant woman to claim the child as hers. Actor Jack Nicholson, for instance, grew up with an older sister who turned out--as he discovered many years later--to be his mother; that's how his family avoided the "shame" of his unmarried sister giving birth: they lied to him and the entire world.[3] In more conservative cultures, such as the US and EU prior to about the 1980s, that was the only viable option if the family wanted to keep the baby but the father wouldn't marry the mother.

For these reasons, I think we should present this page very differently if we keep it at all. Specifically, we need to be up front about the fact that we have NO WAY of confirming the vast majority of these claimed natural or own-egg IVF births. And to maintain the credibility of Wikipedia, we should probably also include information that provides a realistic picture of female fertility at various ages (like the January 2011 commenter suggested).

[1] http://www.newhopefertility.com/research_and_press/new_hope_fertility_in_the_news/

[2] The NHS in the UK has only just this year (2012) raised the maximum age for IVF treatment from 39 to 42. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2146931/Women-40-free-fertility-treatment-NHS-lifts-age-limit.html The Securite Sociale (NHS equivalent) in France will not cover IVF in women 43 or over. http://www.fivfrance.com/page_quest06.html (in French--see first paragraph in right-hand column).

[3] http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/11/jack-nicholsons-supposed-sister-was-actually-his-mother/

I agree about many of the women on the list being highly questionable cases. Theoretically, a woman can get pregnant until she reach menopause. This typically means somewhere between 40 and 61 in today's Western world. (In areas with a low standard of living or in the historical past girls which had menarche later had an earlier menopause.) In practice, fertility gradually decreases with age. To what extent is an area of active research today.

2015-01-07 Lena Synnerholm, Märsta, Sweden.

Please see the policies of WP:OR and WP:SYNTH. What you say may be true, but most of it is unsourced (WP:V). Furthermore, even if you source your claims, you can't use them in the way you appear to want, i.e: there are some women listed here in the table, but this can't be true because of x or y (even if you find a source that says x and y are true you can't engage in WP:OR and WP:SYNTH to draw such conclusions). Also note that in many cases the claims have been made by living persons and you can't just accuse them of lying (please see WP:BLP). While much of what you say may be true, some of it is very suspect: your claim that data from before 1980-1990 can't be trusted due to mothers of pregnant girls/young women claiming the child to be theirs is simply not true and a wide exaggeration: while historical data regarding births, deaths, registration of children etc, can be problematic and there is no way to truly verify it, to say that this extends to the 1990s is ridiculous. Fist of all, your claim that the extreme stigma on unmarried mothers lasted until so late is not true - that might be the case in some parts of the US, but in much of the EU not; furthermore most women were just having abortions if they didn't want the child; even prior to liberalization of laws (generally in the 70's though it depends by country) abortions were easily available, either through what was legally available (some exceptions to the general laws in certain circumstances) or illegally (illegal abortions were very common and available); and since after World War II or so (even much earlier in some countries) in most Western countries hospital births have been the norm. Secondly, in regard to your claim that this article is leading people to have wrong ideas about fertility: having an article with a list of women who have given birth over 50 or having an article titled List of supercentenarians isn't going to lead people to believe that you should expect to have children at 50 or to live to 110. I will also note that this article discusses fertility issues in the lede, while the article List of youngest birth mothers doesn't touch upon the subject of fertility at all. I'm also not sure that there are so many 'myths' regarding fertility, especially with all the mass hysteria in the media about women 'leaving it too late' and all the campaigns from the ART/IVF industries about how infertility is tearing apart society and has become an endemic problem that is threatening the very existence of the population... Let's be serious here.2A02:2F01:1059:F002:0:0:5679:42AE (talk) 05:32, 15 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am more concerned about claimed cases from before 1900. Regardless of how legal it was I don't think safe abortion was widely available before that. Also, one could imagine someone choosing home birth for reasons of discretion. Even today they might be women in the United State which gives birth at home for economic reasons. If so, it is due to that country being the only Western one without universal health care.

I think the acceptance for unmarried mothers gradually spread throughout the Western world during the later half of the 20th century. Before this cultural change took place a woman who fell pregnant unmarried could have the problem solved by marrying during the course of her pregnancy. Her child would then be considered born within marriage. If this option was not available her parents might have claimed her child to be their own. This is what seems to have happened to Jack Nicholson.

Until recently ideas of female fertility at different ages was based on data unrepresentative of today's situation. It was actually statistics about the age of girls and women giving birth in France 1670 – 1830. During the period in question the maternal death rate was rather high. Of cause, if a woman dies from childbirth at 25 she can't have any more children. Furthermore, widespread malnutrition caused girls had menarche later on average. This also meant that women reached menopause earlier. Menopause puts a definite end to fertility.

On the other hand, female fertility at an advanced age should not be overstated. A woman who claims to have got pregnant the natural way (through sex) after the age of 61 is by definition suspect. It is certainly possible to get pregnant at that age using in vitro fertilisation. This can be done using either donated eggs or eggs frozen when she was in her 30ies. Without such medical interventions it is questionable if any women can get pregnant that old. I would demand sufficient medical documentation to support her pathological condition before I accept it.

Have you ever thought of the possibility of age inflation? In agrarian societies at least 90% of the population has to work so hard that they wear out faster. Chronic nutrition deficiencies due to the often very unbalanced diet added to this. Combined these resulted in people ageing considerably faster than in the Western world today. In for example in 17th century Sweden people were considered “old” at the age of 50. Even for those surviving childhood the chances of reaching the age of 70 was also small. Under these circumstances the oldest in society could earn in social status by exaggerating their age. There is many recorded cases of people claiming to be several decades older then they could sensibly be. If age inflation set in before menopause it could explain some of the cases on the list.

Of cause, there could simply be cases of mothers being mixed up with much older relatives. Some female given names may have been so common that a woman ended up having a daughter-in-law with the same names as herself. She might even have had the same name as a woman married to her grandson. Such misunderstandings could explain some cases of implausibly old mothers.

If women's fertility varied so widely as the list suggests why is there no indication of the equivalent variation at the other end? Why don't Wikipedia list three- or four-year-olds giving birth? Because there are no sufficiently documented cases! The three youngest mothers listed are:

1. Lina Medina, Peru, 1939. This case has been suspected to be a hoax. However, there is sufficient medical documentation for it. Lina's condition was highly pathological as she was born with breasts and had menarche as an infant. She fell pregnant at the age of four and gave birth by caesarean section at five. The physician who performed the surgery took care of both her and her son who grew up in the belief that his mother was his sister. The man who made her pregnant was never identified but was suspected to be her own father.
2. Yelizaveta Gryshchenko, Ukraine (then the Soviet Union), 1934. This girl entered puberty pathologically early. Unfortunately, she was raped by her maternal grandfather at the age of five. She survived giving birth vaginally at the age of six but her daughter did not.
3. A girl only known as “H”, India, 1932. She also entered puberty pathologically early but not as early as Yelizaveta Gryshchenko. It is stated that she had never menstruated before falling pregnant. This means she must have fallen pregnant about two weeks before menarche would have occurred. She fell pregnant at the age of five and gave birth by caesarean section at six. Aperantly, her own family took care of her daughter whose father is still unknown.

Strangely, no girls are listed to have given birth at the age of seven. However, nine girls on the list are stated to have given birth at the age of eight. Two of these are unidentified making the veracity of these cases questionable. Yet the well-documented cases of girls giving birth at an even earlier age show that they are not impossible. There are probably more documented cases of girls giving birth at nine or ten then there are in the list. Then we approach the normal rage of variation for the acquisition of fertility.

2015-01-09 Lena Synnerholm, Märsta, Sweden.

To address the concerns raised here I have added references to menopause and to DNA-tested maternity surveys. 46.6.139.175 (talk) 10:57, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Flags[edit]

Use of flags for countries, like in similar articles, would be nice and helpful. --Why should I have a User Name? (talk) 21:22, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Moving speculative / uncited info from article space[edit]

Age of mother Date Mother Father Nature of conception Country Notes
52 years 1990 Unidentified Her husband IVF with oocytes donation United States A Californian 52-year-old woman gave birth to a son conceived by IVF using oocyte(s) donation in 1990.
52 years November 2011 Caroline Lockerman Anonymous sperm donor IVF United States Caroline Lockerman, of Alabama, gave birth to twin boys on November 22, 2010, at the age of 52, after IVF treatment, fertilized by anonymous donor sperm.
53 years 1866 Unidentified Her 25-year-old husband Natural Conception United States Married at 52 to a barely 24-year-old man, five years after menopause at the age of 47, an American woman naturally conceived and gave birth to two daughters in two years, in 1866 and 1867, at the age of 53 then 54, was reported.
54 years 1669 Elizabeth Greenhill William Greenhill, her husband Natural Conception United Kingdom Elizabeth Greenhill, born 1615, who had 39 children with her husband William Greenhill, gave birth to her last child, future London surgeon Thomas Greenhill, in 1669 at the age of 54, having conceived naturally.
54 years 1867 Unidentified Her 26-year-old husband Natural Conception United States Married at 52 to a barely 24-year-old man, five years after menopause at the age of 47, an American woman naturally conceived and gave birth to two daughters in two years, in 1866 and 1867, at the age of 53 then 54, it was reported.
54 years 2000 Unidentified Her husband IVF with oocytes donation Israel A 54-year-old Jewish woman of Israel gave birth to a son in 2000, after IVF treatment using oocytes donation, decided after the death of their only son, a soldier.
55 years 1723 Unidentified Her husband Natural conception Germany Medical books of the 19th century quoted the remarkable reported case of a German woman who became, in 1723, mother of a daughter of her husband by natural conception at the age of 55.
56 years January 2002 Unidentified Her husband IVF with oocytes donation India 56-year-old Indian woman, from Kerala, southern India, gave birth, by Caesarean section, to a son, early 2002, after IVF treatment with oocytes donation.
57 years 2004 Unidentified Illegal 15-year-old teenage sperm donor, allegedly IVF India A 57 year-old woman from Jayaprakash Narayan Nagar, in South of Bangalore, Karnataka, India gave birth to a triplet of two boys and a girl. They were a couple who demanded a Brahmin (the caste of literati scholars) sperm donor but could not find any in the government sector but later found a private IVF clinic which accepted sperm donation from youth below 18. The sperm donor allegedly to be said of 15-year-old from Brahmin caste. Although the guidelines proposed by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for sperm donation strictly prohibits engagement of teenagers below 18 years in such activities but the teens and the medical professionals are frequently breaching the law for their respective purposes, the former which aim to earn extra money. The engagement of underage teens in sperm donation in India here is on the rise.
57 years November 2011 Unidentified Her husband IVF with oocytes donation United States 57-year-old woman from California, USA gave birth to twin boys in Palm Springs on November 28, 2011.[citation needed]
58 years 1757 Unidentified Her husband Natural conception Prussia Albrecht von Haller (October 16, 1708 – December 12, 1777), German Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet, reported the case of a German woman who has given birth in 1757 to a daughter naturally conceived with her husband at the age already advanced of 58 years.
58 years 1991 Unidentified Her husband IVF using oocytes donation Denmark 58-year-old Danish woman gave birth to a son in 1991, after IVF treatment with oocytes donation fertilized by her husband's sperm.
58 years September 1965 Doris Beckford Her husband Natural conception United Kingdom Doris Beckford of London, England gave birth to her fourth child, after going to the Doctors for amenorrhea and distention of the abdomen, after being told she was suffering from an ovarian cyst and being booked in for an operation for a removal. On arrival to the hospital and just prior to being put under general anaesthetic was examined and was told she was 6 months pregnant. A healthy baby girl was delivered 3 months later.
58 years, 8 months July 1992 Miranda Martino Her husband IVF with oocytes donation Italy Italian singer Miranda Martino gave birth to a son in early July 1992 after IVF treatment with oocyte donation. Born on October 26, 1933, she was then 58 years and more than 8 months.
59 years ½ 1890 Unidentified Her concubine Natural conception United States Depasse reported the case of an American woman who, widowed at 39 years and menopaused at 49, became pregnant almost miraculously by her concubine just before 59, near 1890, to give birth at the age of 59 ½ to a son, who she had breastfed until 65, that he was 6 years.
61 years 1891 Unidentified Her husband Natural conception United States Dr. Lovett Dewees reported the case of a woman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who, in 1891 had, at the age of 61, given birth to a son conceived naturally with her husband.
62 years 1860 Unidentified Her husband Natural conception United Kingdom An inscription on the monument of the St. Peter's Church, in East Oxford, reminds of the death in childbirth near 1860 of a citizen 62-year-old woman, whose little girl had survived.
63 years 1751 Unidentified Her husband Natural conception Austria Albrecht von Haller (October 16, 1708 – December 12, 1777), German Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet, reported the case of an Austrian woman who has given birth in 1751 to a son naturally conceived with her husband at the age already advanced of 63 years.
64 years 2009 Unidentified Anonymous sperm donor Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation Israel 64-year-old Israeli woman gave birth to a daughter in 2009 after receiving a postmenopausal IVF with oocytes and sperm donations.
65 years March 2010 Jennifer Hong Egg donor's Vietnamese husband Postmenopausal IVF treatment with Vietnamese donor's oocyte Canada Jennifer Hong, Canadian of Vietnamese origin aged 65, gave birth to her second child, a son named Marvin, on March 1, 2010 in St. Paul's Hospital (Vancouver) in Canada. She used ovum and sperm donation from a Vietnamese couple in 2009, as her own husband, Huy Hong, being sterile. Of becoming a mother at age 65, she has said, "It doesn't matter how old you are. It just matters that I have a family which I love. My husband, Huy stood beside me all the way and was completely supportive of me." Her oldest child, son Dexter, was 19, born on November 20, 1990. [citation needed]
67 years 2006 Unidentified Anonymous sperm donor Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation Serbia and Montenegro A Serbian woman gave birth in 2006 by Caesarean section to a daughter conceived by postmenopausal IVF treatment, with ovum and sperm donors.
68 years 1753 Mrs. John Delay Her husband, John Delay Natural conception United Kingdom John Mockett reported the case of Mrs. John Delay, aged 68, who had conceived naturally and gave birth in 1753 to a son of her 70-year-old husband. This report is doubtful.[1]
69 years January 1863 Unidentified Her 74-year-old husband Natural conception United States Dr. Wayne McCarthy reported the case of a 69-year-old woman who had conceived naturally and gave birth in January 1863 to a son of her 74-year-old husband, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
69 years 1997 Unidentified Her husband Postmenopausal IVF treatment with oocytes donation Italy An Italian woman gave birth in 1997 by Caesarean section to a daughter conceived by postmenopausal IVF treatment, with oocyte donation fertilized by her husband's sperm.
70 years 1762 Unidentified Her husband Natural conception Switzerland Albrecht von Haller (October 16, 1708 – December 12, 1777), German Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet, reported the case of a woman who had given birth in 1762 to a son naturally conceived with her husband at the already advanced age of 70 years.
70 years 1880 Unidentified Her husband Natural conception Germany Dr Schoepfer reported the case of a German woman who became mother of a daughter in 1880 at the age of 70. This report is doubtful.
70 years 1897 Unidentified The young man who drove her home one evening Natural conception France A case reported in the Parisian Landernau, but the subject of controversy, that of a woman, in Garches, west of the French capital, who became mother of a son in 1897 at the incredible age of 70, after a night spent with a young man who drove her home after their evening of libation.
71 years 1899 Ann Hughes Simon Hughes, her 57-year-old husband Natural Conception United States Ann Loney gave birth to her and her third husband's third son, William, in 1899 in Iowa.[2] ---> Several issues: 1) Husbands age seems to be correct, but Ann was born in 1830, and was 69 in 1899. 2) There's no child of the couple in the 1900 federal census. 3) Ancestry is not a reliable source. 4) Not finding a reliable source.
72 years May 1776 Ellen Ellis Her husband Natural conception United Kingdom Mrs. Ellen Ellis supposedly gave birth to her 13th child, a boy, on 15 May 1776, in Clwyd, Wales.[3] She was 72 at the time, and in her 46th year of marriage. The child was stillborn.[4] The case is nevertheless highly questionable.
73 years 1865 Unidentified Her husband Natural conception United States Dr Mayham reported the case of a 73-year-old mother in United States near 1865.
73 years 1939 Pace Steve Pace, her husband Natural conception United States Mrs Steve Pace, of Rose Hill, Virginia, is reported have given birth to her 17th child, a boy, in 1939, at the extreme age of 73.[5] She was then already mother of 16 children, the last of whom was born twenty-three years earlier. ---> Several issues 1) 1940 census shows the couple in their 60s and no young child 2) Time magazine article about pregnancy is the only source I could find, which seems unlikely if it was true. Removed blog citation
I've found the sources for some of the entries, so i have moved them back to the article and removed from this list. Darena mipt (talk) 00:15, 18 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Mockett's Journal (1836), page 23
  2. ^ http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/36235414/person/20435421538. Retrieved 2013-07-10. {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ "The List - Older Mothers". The Independent. 2 January 1994. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
  4. ^ The world's strangest mysteries. New York: Gallery Books. 1987. p. 686. ISBN 0-8317-9678-2.
  5. ^ Time, volume 33, page 185

Request[edit]

Add Margarita Louise-Dreyfuss to the list, as she has just given birth aged 53. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.73.111.238 (talk) 14:27, 21 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Also add Mangayamma Yaramati, 73.[1] --Inehmo (talk) 10:42, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49575735/

Delete or redirect[edit]

I do not think it appropriate to have an article solely on this topic, as it now stands. This topic should be covered in articles about IVF and in more general articles about pregnancy/birth at later ages, and if not deleted redirect to the latter.

Apart from content that is or should be duplicated at those topics, this article consists solely of a long list. This list is too long to be useful, necessarily incomplete, and will continue to grow rapidly given the use of IVF today. Perhaps if it were restricted to those before the use of IVF, it might be reasonable to maintain (and, as documented just above, dubious entries were removed); and statistical probabilites of pregnancy at given ages are surely of interest but this list is not helpful for that nor can we become a primary source for that.

In addition, this article is not titled 'List of ...' as list articles should be; I'd suggest 'List of births to women age 50 and over' if that were to be done. Finally, as was brought up by Lena Synnerholm above, many of the modern cases that list 'natural conception' or no egg donation are highly questionable. For Elizabeth Edwards we have 'presumed IVF', correctly, but for living women we don't, I assume because of BLP reasons. But BLP doesn't require us to repeat false information, and we could simply ignore the circumstances of conception, as we do on those women's own pages if they exist. The only alternative, in such cases where no reliable sources are possible, is to use our own reasonable judgement even at the potential risk of a lawsuit (I leave it to others to decide that).

For some, being listed itself might be seen as a BLP problem (WP:BLP1E).

For all these reasons, this article should go. I request the next registered editor coming across this to start an AfD, or else address these issues him- or herself. 73.164.86.121 (talk) 22:55, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(Note: some references from above are misplaced below this. I don't know how to fix that, as that style's meant for articles, not talk pages. They're not mine, anyway.)

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Sarah[edit]

Sarah, Abraham’s wife conceived at 89 63.229.216.122 (talk) 06:08, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ages in the Old Testament are open to (mis)interpretation, see Longevity myths#Abrahamic religions. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 15:32, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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