Worlds Oldest New Mother Dies Leaving Behind Twin Toddlers

The world is over populated, so nobody should be having any babies, regardless of what age they are.

On one hand, I think that women over 40 who have a child are being selfish, for the simple reason that kids deserve a mother who has enough energy to devote to them, also a 40 year generation gap between a mother and her child is simply too much. On the other hand had my mother had my views I would have never come into this world. I think that in today's world we have to overcome age long prejudice and stop pointing fingers. I emphatise with any woman who wants to become a mother irrespective of her age.

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considering i was diagnosed with early menopause at 33, I don't think we can make any blanket rules about what conception ability means to parenting ability. I am pregnant now after 1 failed IVF with my own eggs, 1 failed frozen embryo transfer, and 1 successful (so far, knock on wood!) frozen embryo transfer. Both FETs were donated. After trying to become a parent in my twenties, it took 8 years to make it happen. I am an 'older' mother, but I think I'll do just fine, if i don't get hit by a bus.

btw- my great great grandmother lived to 98, first kid at 14- my great grandmother is still alive at 96, first kid at 17, my grandmother died at 73, first kid at 18 (last at 35), my mom is in her mid-fifties, had me at 17. It was cool to have five generations when I was born, we were in the paper. I am happy I didn't become a parent in my teens, and I have accepted that it didn't happen in my twenties.

I don't know if any of this means anything to anyone else- but I know the attitude of the article that anyone should be able dictate to women whether or not they are 'suitable' to be parents because of their ability to reproduce naturally just rubs me the wrong way. my two cents.

Nuts! Preventable! Waste of good doctors time! We have people waiting in lines in ER and this moron ties up a doctor's good time for this travesty? Good she died before doing it again! China limits births one to a family for economic sakes of the world! Her doctors should be reprimanded, and reminded of the real value of their time to humanity. Almost as bad as the "octo-mom" in the U.S.A. Overindulgence to the extreme!

having a baby beyond the age that you are likely to live to see them grown is an act of monumental act of selfishness. the whole point of having a child is raise that child into a productive adult. it's like taking a job that is going to last 18 years when you are going to be forced to move to a distant town at a moment's notice. parenting is something that you have no business embarking on unless you've got the time and the stamina. it's hard work and most people past the age of 40 or so are not going to be able to do a great job of it.

51 percent of the people would vote to strip the RIGHTS of 49 percent of the people. The RIGHT to choose your own future regardless of age should not be left to the 51 percent suffering from Stockholm syndrome. Please do yourselves a favor and look it up.

I think this is sad, no matter what her age was, the children are at a loss.

Doctors shouldn't have to ask for birth certificates; a simple check of her ID or driver's license should have been standard! Sounds like negligence.

Doctors must be more vigilant about age-screening women before IVF, maybe requesting proof of age? Poor kids, they likely won't even remember who brought them into the world and will only hear about "The World's Oldest Mother" through websites and news.

No, not all older women should have the right to in-vitro fertilization taken away because of freakshow liars like this woman. The doctors should have done more strict background testing to confirm her age, even if there is the slightest suspicion of her being older than the limit.