60-year old single mom-to-be

If you thought giving birth in your 40’s was risky, the envelope has been well and truly pushed out by the news that a 60-year old woman living in Suwa, Nagano, has successfully undergone in-vitro fertilization in the USA. The woman is 15 weeks into her pregnancy and is apparently doing well. If she does give birth, she will become the world’s oldest single new mom. Elsewhere in the world, a 66-year old married Romanian woman gave birth in 2005, and in the UK in 2006 a 63-year old married woman did so.

Source: TT commentary from ap.google.com, Oct 4, 2007)