Woman, 47, Gives Birth to Her First Child an Hour After Learning She Was Pregnant
(Link): A 47-year-old woman discovered she was pregnant an hour before giving birth
- When severe abdominal pain sent 47 year-old Judy Brown to the hospital Wednesday night, she was shocked at her diagnosis: She was in labor.
- A doctor at Beverly Hospital told Brown she was pregnant at about 6:20 p.m. An hour later, daughter Carolyn Rose was born, according to The Salem News .
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“I was in a little shock,” Brown, a first-time mom, told The Salem NewsThursday.
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According to WCVB, Judy and husband Jason have been married for 22 years, and the couple’s approach to having kids was always, “If it happens, it happens.”
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The healthy baby weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounces and measured 20.5 inches long.
(Link): 47-Year-Old Massachusetts Woman Gives Birth Didn’t Realize She Was Pregnant
- A woman in Massachusetts gave birth to an 8-lb. baby girl Wednesday after going to the hospital for abdominal pain.
- Judy Brown had no idea she was in labor when she arrived at the hospital. But that’s when doctors told her, ” ‘It’s good news: There’s no blockage. You are pregnant and you are going to have her now!’ ” according to WCVB Boston.
- The first-time mom, 47, told the news station she had odd symptoms but didn’t know what they were. She thought her baby bump was just added weight, a side effect of getting older.
- “I felt like I was turning into my mother,” she said.
(Link): Woman, 47, Gives Birth to Her First Child an Hour After Learning She Was Pregnant
- Surprise! It was a baby. At age 47, Brown found out she was pregnant about an hour before her daughter arrived.
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She and her husband had gone to a Massachusetts hospital because she was experiencing unbearable stomach cramps, which turned out to be labor pains.
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Judy recalled how the doctors said: “‘It’s good news there’s no blockage. You are pregnant and you are going to have her now!'”
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After 22 years of marriage, the couple now has their first child.
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(Link): The Crumbling Post-35 Pregnancy Myth (article from The Daily Beast site)
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(Link): Infertility/ Kids/ The Male Biological Clock
(Link): Article by J. Watts: The Scandal of Singleness – singles never married christian
(Link): Renting a Womb – Women Reduced to Baby Breeders (editorial from CP)
(Link): Remaining childless can be wise and meaningful. The pope should know Gaby Hinsliff
(Link): Praying for a Child – The Catholic Church makes life impossible for infertile women.
(Link): Why do we still have to justify the choice to be child-free? by H. Freeman
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