Thanks to the development of IVF techniques, you may see many nulliparous mothers over the age of 60 years. The statistics first seem unbelievable.
Aged primiparas mothers aged 60 and older, who until recently was considered a medical phenomenon and attracted worldwide attention, can become very common, as experts warn. This week in America is the world’s largest expert conference in the field of fertility. The participants suggest professionals to prepare for the emergence of a whole generation of “white-haired young mothers”, which could become a reality thanks to the influence of certain stars, as well as the development of technologies of in vitro fertilization. Suffice it to say that within just 20 years the number of women who gave birth to first child at the age from 50 to 55 years has increased 4 times.
Technically using frozen eggs, a woman can have a baby and after 60 years, and the number of examples grows. However, experts in the field of IVF and psychologists emphasize that the application of this technology for the first child after 50 and 60 will cause psychological trauma to the baby, who expects the early death of his mother. In addition, gestation and birth at such a ripe old age threaten the health of future children, as well as middle-aged mothers who face serious complications during pregnancy.
If in 2001 in England and Wales there are only two women older than 55 who were “young mothers”, in 2016 – 20. In 2009, the Englishwoman Elizabeth ADANI became the oldest woman in the country’s history, producing a baby at the age of 66 years. She went through IVF in Ukraine. Russian clinics for treatment of infertility is also actively attracted to older women for their high performance and affordable prices. (READ MORE)