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TRENTON, N.J. - A 60-year-old woman became a mother, twice over, when she delivered a pair of boys Tuesday.
Frieda Birnbaum gave birth to "Baby A" at 12:44 p.m. and "Baby B" a minute later by Caesarean section at Hackensack University Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Nancy Radwin said. The twins each weighed 4 pounds, 11 ounces, she said.
"The mom is in recovery, and she and the babies are doing really well," Radwin said, declining a request to speak with the mother.
Hospital officials believe Birnbaum may be the oldest woman to give birth to twins in the United States, Radwin said.
If you can have them naturally at that age, and crazy enough to do it, all the power to you.
However, I have a real problem with a doctor allowing it to happen artificially (I was cursing loudly when I saw it on tv). The woman is 60..WITH TWINS!!! 30 year olds have a hard time handling it! The bigger problem, though is, the woman, IF she's alive, will be 78 at their high school graduation. They mentioned something on tv of her older children are resentful that they'll have to raise them.
If you can have them naturally at that age, and crazy enough to do it, all the power to you.
However, I have a real problem with a doctor allowing it to happen artificially (I was cursing loudly when I saw it on tv). The woman is 60..WITH TWINS!!! 30 year olds have a hard time handling it! The bigger problem, though is, the woman, IF she's alive, will be 78 at their high school graduation. They mentioned something on tv of her older children are resentful that they'll have to raise them.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
i'm having this discussion on another board. what is your solution then? you yourself said if you can have them naturally at that age, "more power to you". how old will THAT mother be when those kids graduate HS?
to be clear, i'm not a fan of this. however, regulating it is MUCH scarier, IMHO. such is the quandry with medical advances.
I would strangle my husband if he knocks me up when I'm 60....heck 40. LOL My hubby and I had our kids when we were young so we could enjoy our "golden" years. I would absolutely die if I had to start over and raise another child at that age. From the kid's point of view many of my friends parents growing up were in their 50's and they were always upset that their parents couldn't do alot of the things with them(ex. playing baseball, football etc.. with them) This was 25years ago mind you, people seem to age slower nowadays but still. I couldn't imagine how you would recover physically at that age to take care of a toddler let alone a teenager.
I would strangle my husband if he knocks me up when I'm 60....heck 40. LOL My hubby and I had our kids when we were young so we could enjoy our "golden" years. I would absolutely die if I had to start over and raise another child at that age. From the kid's point of view many of my friends parents growing up were in their 50's and they were always upset that their parents couldn't do alot of the things with them(ex. playing baseball, football etc.. with them) This was 25years ago mind you, people seem to age slower nowadays but still. I couldn't imagine how you would recover physically at that age to take care of a toddler let alone a teenager.
and yet I had older parents and didn't feel the way your friends did - my parents rocked, and we had a great time playing board/trivia games and poker. i had my kids at 30 and don't play football and baseball with them - I'd rather stick pins in my eyes!
I had my kids at 40,43 and 47.I am now 50.They keep me young!I do more and look better than alot of younger moms I see.However,having kids past 50 is pushing it.And 60 is just wrong!
I just meant, if someone can have it naturally (I would assume most, if not all, can't), then who am I to tell them not to (the women who get knocked up by 70 year old men are just as crazy!). BUT, I think it is wrong for a doctor to intentionally push a woman's body into having a baby when it wasn't supposed to be able to (I assume at 60 she had hit menopause....do they have to give her hormone therapy first, then implant the embryo?). We have a 30 year old (or so) woman in our mom's group that has 15mo old twins, and she feels like she can barely keep up with them.
The problem here is that science can help a woman her age have twins...and as far as I know there is no sweeping policies to dictate if science should actually do so in cases like this.
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