The oldest women to give birth in UK. What do you think?

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<h1 class="story-detail-title flagging-1"> Elizabeth Adeney, 66, Will be Oldest Women to Give Birth in UK</h1> Share: by Tina Kells | May 15, 2009 at 08:40 pm 42811 views | 21 Recommendations | 102 comments Elizabeth Adeney will soon become the oldest woman ever to give birth in the UK; she is 66 years old. Adney will replace the previous record holder Patricia Rashbrook who gave birth in 2006 at the age of 62 (almost 63). Patricia Rashbrook is happy to give up her Oldest Woman to give Birth in the UK title to Elizabeth Adney; she is Adeney's attending physician.

Like her physician-mentor Patricia Rashbrook, Elizabeth Adney will have a baby boy. Baby-boy Adney is due in June 2009. Adney has been put in the spotlight in Britian after the news of her pregnancy broke. Elizabeth Adney, who makes her home in Lidgate, Suffolk, is used to a quiet life but that has changed. Adney has been both criticised and lauded for her decision to become a single mom after going through a difficult divorce.

Ms. Adeney has a supporter in her own physician, Dr. Patricia Rashbrook, who had a son through in vitro at the age of 63. Elizabeth will beat Rashbrook’s age by four years, and when her child has her 20th birthday, Adeney will be turning 87 shortly after.

This single mum is fully capable of supporting her child. She has a $910,000 (USD) home, a full-time live-in nanny and a deep desire for a child. Said to be one “feisty” woman, she was a debutante and an airline hostess. Elizabeth married Robert Adeney but the union was short lived.

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[Sofiyya 1,687]

More power to her! I'm baby sitting a little cousin as we speak. His mom was 50 when he was born, and he wasn't in vitro.

[DeadPoolX 9]

The one thing I'd worry about is a congenital defect. A woman's incidence of birthing a child with Down Syndrome (especially a boy) skyrockets as she gets older. That doesn't mean a woman in her 40s, 50s and apparently 60s, couldn't have a healthy baby, but the potential for complications become much riskier.

[Peikko 1,575]

These things are monitored very carefully and the eggs are donated. Most problems occur with older eggs not older women.

[DeadPoolX 9]

These things are monitored very carefully and the eggs are donated. Most problems occur with older eggs not older women.

True. But unless eggs are donated, older women generally have older eggs.

[Peikko 1,575]

The eggs are donated at least I know for a fact they are in this instance and another similar story of an older UK woman.

[Mary Lou 682]

I say good for her. As long as she's healthy and the doctors havent found anything wrong, why not.