Is 63 too old to become a mother?
The birth of baby Megan has seen her mother, Tineke Geessink, at the tender age of 63 become the Netherlands oldest ever new mother.
Whilst the advances in medical science for overcoming illness and disease have a tangible benefit to the wider population, have we gone too far with assisted conception to help a woman become a mother, when nature has decided she is too old?
Both mother and daughter may be ‘doing fine’ but is this really the point? Has this woman been selfish to fulfill “a feeling she claims to have had for so long” and shouldn’t she have done something about it sooner?
Born by Caesarian section and the result of conception by a foreign sperm donor, baby Meagan may not have as long with her mother as would be ideal but, as single mother Gressnick a single mother told Dutch public radio, “There is no guarantee that if you have a child at a young age you will see your child grow up’.
Is this a sufficient reason for her actions? What do you think?
At 66 years of age , I think personally shes nuts, but to each his own . I just hope there is other family to care for the child should something happen. How sad for the child when she becomes a mother in perhaps 20 years time, this woman will either be dead or very ancient, one has to wonder why she waited so long ,maybe too busy having fun. I had my 4 daughters between the ages of 20 and 30 and am so glad I did, now I am free and still young enough to have fun. Wobbly.