Woman gives birth to twins at 60

[me]

Woman gives birth to twins at 60
Fri Feb 6, 8:00 am ET

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – A 60-year-old woman in the Western Canadian city of Calgary has given birth to twins after going to India for fertility treatments, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp reported on its website on Thursday.

The report said the twins, both boys, were seven weeks prematurely delivered by caesarean section. Though one is breathing with the help of special equipment, doctors said the twins are doing well but will be kept in hospital until they gain weight and both can breathe on their own.

The woman, originally from India, traveled back to that country for in vitro fertilization using donor eggs after being refused the treatment in Canada because of her age. The CBC said she had tried for years to get pregnant but had miscarried three times, even after surgery to correct a problem with her womb.

While unusual, a 60-year old woman giving birth is nowhere near a record. ABC News reported in July that a 72-year-old woman in India, who already had five grandchildren, gave birth to twins after in vitro fertilization, making her the world's oldest mother.

The CBC report said the Calgary woman's obstetrician thought it was a joke when she was referred to him before she showed up at his office. He is still questioning the implications of someone having children at an advanced age.

"I couldn't imagine if I was 65 having two five-year-olds running around crazily. The energy to do that is incredible," the CBC quoted the doctor as saying.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/oukoe_uk_twins

I just can't imagine having a baby at 60. 

[Anne]

I can't imagine why anyone would want to do that. 

[me]

It don't even make sense to me.

[Sandy Eggo]

I don't know if I should be encouraged because women who chose to wait because of a career, to find the right person or whatever can still conceive a child (Admittedly 60 is pushing even that excuse) or to feel disgusted at the selfishness of this woman because she may not live to see the baby grow up.

[me]

I don't know if I should be encouraged because women who chose to wait because of a career, to find the right person or whatever can still conceive a child (Admittedly 60 is pushing even that excuse) or to feel disgusted at the selfishness of this woman because she may not live to see the baby grow up.

As bad as it is to say at 60 she's lucky to have made it through the delivery.  I kind of have mixed emotions like you though plus I really don't feel it's fair to the child.

[Sandy Eggo]

I know someone who was adopted as an infant by her great-grandmother @ 66. She lived to see the girl turn 21. It was hard on the girl mostly because she didn't have anyone else, but she did okay.

[me]

I guess it depends on the person when it all comes down to it. 

[kimmi]

Be quiet guys!! This could be me someday! 

[Locutus]

[Sandy Eggo]

Not me I would like to be in a position to do foster care or adopt though. I'm not opposed to another biological child (and I'm no where near 60 ) but I'm just not picturing it in my future. There are so many children in the world that need someone to love them already.

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SoCal octuplets mother now has agent, no publicist

LOS ANGELES – The public relations group that has represented octuplets mother Nadya Suleman is stepping down because of death threats, its president said Saturday.

Joann Killeen also said the mother now has an agent: Wes Yoder, the same man who arranged book and music deals for the McCaughey septuplets a decade ago and publicity for controversial pastor Rick Warren.

The Killeen Furtney Group was ending its free representation after receiving at least 100 graphic e-mailed threats and swarms of nasty voicemails that went to the Los Angeles agency and even to some of its other clients, Killeen said.

Some messages threatened Suleman but others were aimed at her spokespeople.

"They'd put me in the wood chipper and throw me in the bottom of the ocean and hope I die," Killeen said.

"We've gotten her through the worst part of it and now they are putting their venom and anger toward us," Killeen said.

Word that the 33-year-old single unemployed mother is receiving public assistance to care for the 14 children she conceived through in vitro fertilization has stoked furor among many people.

West Los Angeles police are investigating the threats.

"We've never had a public reaction to us representing a client pro bono like this, ever," Killeen said.

Suleman, who gave birth last month, is living at an undisclosed location. She has set up a Web page to accept donations to help the octuplets, who remained hospitalized.

Meanwhile, Killeen said Suleman told her that she had reached an exclusive representation deal with Yoder.

His Ambassador Agency, Inc., bills itself as the oldest Christian-based talent agency in the United States.

The agency, which has a Nashville mailing address and a street address in Franklin, Tenn., promotes speaking engagements, publicity and media deals for clients.

Killeen said the agreement with Yoder and her agency's decision to step down were unrelated. She had not yet contacted Yoder and was unclear on the specifics of Suleman's deal with him, Killeen added.

A call and e-mail left for Yoder before dawn on Saturday were not immediately returned.

A decade ago, Yoder was the spokesman and agent for Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey, the Iowa couple who had the world's first surviving septuplets on Nov. 19, 1997. They were later involved in book, music and TV commercial deals.

He also has represented Rick Warren, pastor of the evangelical Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake Forest and best-selling author of "The Purpose Driven Life." Warren gave the invocation at President Barack Obama's inauguration — a choice that drew criticism from gay activists because Warren supported last year's successful California ballot initiative that outlawed same-sex marriages.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090214/ap_on_re_us/octuplets

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The mother of all baby bumps: Octuplets mum bares her ENORMOUS stomach just eight days before giving birth


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1142566/The-mother-baby-bumps-Octuplets-mum-bares-ENORMOUS-stomach-just-days-giving-birth.html


There are also pic's of the babies.