Mothers Over 40 in Record Baby Boom: Number of Women Who Give Birth in Their Fifth Decade or Later Trebles

Mothers Over 40 in Record Baby Boom: Number of Women Who Give Birth in Their Fifth Decade or Later Trebles

This article is from 2010. I could have sworn I already did a blog post on this, but I looked around my blog a little bit and don’t see it.

(Link): Mothers over 40 in record baby boom: Number of women who give birth in their fifth decade or later trebles

By Steve Doughty for the Daily Mail
 26 May 2010

A baby boom among older women has trebled the number giving birth after their 40th birthday.

Almost 27,000 babies were born to mothers over 40 last year, figures revealed yesterday.

The unprecedented level is nearly three times the total of 20 years ago and up by 50 per cent over the past decade.

Even during the post-war childbirth peak in the Sixties there were fewer children born to women in their fifth decade and beyond.

Britain now has one of the highest birth rates for older women in the world, with 3.8 per cent of all babies born to mothers over 40. Only Italy has a higher level in Europe.

Woman in Her 70s May Be Oldest Ever to Give Birth

Woman in Her 70s May Be Oldest Ever to Give Birth

(Link): Woman in Her 70s May Be Oldest Ever to Give Birth

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By ARSHAD R. ZARGAR & ASHLEY WELCH CBS NEWS

May 12, 2016, 3:23 PM

A woman in India could make the record books as one of the oldest ever to give birth.

Daljinder Kaur, who’s believed to be at least 70 years old, gave birth to a son named Arman (meaning “wish” in Hindi) on April 19. The baby was the first for Kaur and her 79-year-old husband, Mohinder Singh Gill, after nearly five decades of marriage.

“I feel blessed to be able to hold my own baby. I had lost hope of becoming a mother ever,” said Kaur, who underwent two years of (Link): IVF treatment and had two failed attempts earlier.