When we think of women who are mothers at an advanced age, we imagine that they are 45 years old, at most 50 (for what the neighbor has explained to us about a relative of hers); We already told in this post that during premenopause there is still the possibility (short, yes) of pregnancy, and that are the last years in which a woman can conceive without resorting to fertilization or egg donation techniques. It certainly doesn't occur to us to think of a new mother over 55 years old, does it? Lina Álvarez has shown us that it can be done, and she is no less than 62 years oldAlthough I suspect that she has a lot of energy, otherwise I would not have made the decision to be a mother for the third time.
It was October 11 when little Lina (she is named after her mother and her maternal grandmother) was born, and now she is in a house enjoying family intimacy, and from what we have read, also enjoying mother's tit, because the The body of a pregnant woman (whatever the form in which that pregnancy has come) produces milk and oxytocin is excreted so the baby can be fed. This mother is a doctor and is surprised by the uproar that has been organized around her recent motherhood: everyone giving their opinion, even judging, although she looks happy.
And I say it is her third child because Lina has 27-year-old Xiquito who suffers from cerebral palsy, and Samuel, who was born 10 years ago, and his mother also resorted to a fertilization process to conceive him. This Galician mother has not had a partner since she separated from the father of her first child; but from what I've read, is considered perfectly capable of raising and educating the newcomer, who (according to his words) when the mother is 92 years old, she will have already turned 30, and therefore will not need her so much.
A family that has grown up and a late pregnancy.
I heard her on Monday on television (I think it was when she was discharged after several days of having a cesarean section) saying that it is nature that sets limits, not medicine. Affirmation true only in part because in his case the limit has been extended due to having financial resources to pay for an intervention that was also performed by a gynecologist the one she had found searching on the Internet, after the refusal of the professionals she visited to see her dream of being a mother come true again.
The pregnancy was declared viable, and after the embryo implantation, hormones were administered so that the uterus had a normal response; this was until the third month, after which the placenta is capable of generating both progesterone and estrogens. We always say that 'nature is wise', and perhaps the menopause helps the female organism not be overloaded at ages when it is fully mature, but close to old age. Although there are also more risks in pregnancy, such as hypertension, gestational diabetes, prematurity, lower birth weight, etc. By the way, Lina junior weighed just under 2500 grams at birth.
The legal regulation of assisted reproduction in our country, sets the minimum age at 18 years, without establishing a maximum age limit; although the National Commission for Assisted Human Reproduction, agreed a few years ago the age of 50 (between 48 and 52 more exactly) as the maximum to carry them out. It is the reason that Lina's request was not answered in Galicia, her native autonomous community. If there is regulation in the age difference that should separate the donor and the recipient woman, and this difference would be 45 years.
Will Lina be able to take care of her daughter?
I think that of all the criticisms it has received, the least justified is precisely this, because we are not the ones to decide whether or not it is capable of raising and educating. A priori it seems clear that the younger the mother is, the more vitality and energy she will have, although if her health is good and she has help at home, the girl will have her mother for many years. It is clear that we all think “and do you die leaving a little girl of a few years without a family?”, But we do not know if she has established a guardianship system so that other relatives could take charge, in general we speak without knowing the case too well .
She is one of the European women who have been mothers with the oldest, so it should not surprise you that we are all pending 😉, I understand that now you are in your postpartum and you will not want to catch up on what others think. By the way, there are precedents of women who even older have had babies: Carmen Bousada with 67 years had twins (although unfortunately she died when they were 3 years old), the Romanian Adriana Illiescu with 66 years, the Russian Ula Margusheva with 79 years, etc.
Right of the mother or the baby?
This issue is more controversial, also let's not forget that if it is in question, it is not only because of her advanced age (and may I apologize for the expression 'advanced'), but because she is a woman, because we all know famous men who have been parents being very old and do we also criticize them? Well, there will be those who do not even consider the dilemma of babies or children with a parent who could well be their grandfather, other people do think about it whether it is their father or mother.
It seems that Saul and Xiquito are delighted with their little sister, Saul is also old enough to help his mother a little; a mother who attributes her elder's cerebral palsy to the puncture of amniocentesis, and that after obtaining radiological tests, she is litigating against the hospital where the test was carried out when she was pregnant for the first time 27 years ago. A surprising story that of this woman. We wish him good health to raise Lina, support Saul as he grows older, and prepare for the future of his eldest son..
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