In vitro fertilization has done many things for many people. There are a multitude of reasons that a woman may be unable to get pregnant without IVF and the treatment provides her an option that she otherwise may not have had. For some women, IVF allows them to go back in time, reversing menopause and allowing them to get pregnant in their later years.
Here are some of the oldest women to give birth using IVF:
- Rosanna della Corte is a woman who had a series of ups and downs when it came to being a mother. First she gave birth naturally only to have her first child die in a car accident. As an older woman, she used IVF to get pregnant and conceived on the first try but then miscarried. The sixth attempt was successful and she gave birth when she was 62 years old.
- Adriana Iliescu. This Romanian woman gave birth to a child when she was 66 years old. However, some argue that her case doesn't really count because the child she gave birth to wasn't her biological child, IVF was used in a process that made her something similar to a surrogate. Would you really tell that to the child that she birthed and is raising though?
- Turkan Katicelik was one of the most recent older women to give birth. This happened last year in Germany when the mother was 64 years old.
Learn more about births over the age of 50 from Wikipedia.
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