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(Independent)   Pregnant 66-year old: "I am not asking people to understand me"   (independent.ie) divider line 97
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2009-05-18 11:00:08 AM
l.yimg.com
 
2009-05-18 11:13:12 AM
But Mrs Adeney claims that she feels 39 and is fitter than women who are a third of her age.

I still feel the same as I did at 22. But for some reason I can't drink and party all night long and still be coherent the next day.
 
2009-05-18 11:16:27 AM
 
2009-05-18 12:09:08 PM
"... and then she gives birth to a beautiful baby, which I will illustrate by pushing this uncooked Cornish game hen through these gray drapes..."
 
2009-05-18 12:09:44 PM
Never mind that she "feels like she's 39", her body is still 66. The likelihood that she'll die before her child is of adult age is even odds. And never mind the school yard torment....
 
2009-05-18 01:02:26 PM
I've farked older

/ya really
 
2009-05-18 01:02:33 PM
This is the kind of baby boomer crap that really pisses me off.
 
2009-05-18 01:03:25 PM
Evilegg: same with me! Funny how that happens.

Anyway, this news is actually pretty cool, from a cold and clinical perspective.
 
2009-05-18 01:04:21 PM
SpaceyCat: Never mind that she "feels like she's 39", her body is still 66. The likelihood that she'll die before her child is of adult age is even odds. And never mind the school yard torment....

Forget that. The odds are greater that the kids' DNA will be given a good stir by Darwin before being born...a Downs baby is more likely with a mother's advanced age.
 
2009-05-18 01:05:43 PM
Prof Antinori, who helped 62-year-old Briton Patricia Rashbrook give birth three years ago, said he was shocked at the prospect of Mrs Adeney having a child. "I respect the choice medically but I think anyone over 63 is risky because you cannot guarantee the child will have a loving mother or family," he said.

Convenient cutoff you set, Prof. Just high enough so that you're not evil but this woman is. Nicely done.
 
2009-05-18 01:06:28 PM
Does babby want num nums?
http://tinyurl.com/r7hvz4
(copy and paste, NSFW)
 
2009-05-18 01:06:30 PM
FlyingJellyAttackConfectionary: I've farked older

/ya really


Pics, or it didn't happen.

Wait - never mind.

John Coyote: "... and then she gives birth to a beautiful baby, which I will illustrate by pushing this uncooked Cornish game hen through these gray drapes..."

I LOL'd
 
2009-05-18 01:06:55 PM
There seems to be a theme today on Fark
 
2009-05-18 01:07:41 PM
Great. Subby all out of colons?
 
2009-05-18 01:07:45 PM
She said that sometimes she felt almost half her age, adding: "It's not my physical age that's important -- it's how I feel inside."

I am amazed not one utterance in the article addresses medical issues regarding pregnancy in older women. I assure you, age is important, no matter how much you want to suggest or "feel" otherwise. If you have a healthy child, wonderful, but I won't hold my breath.
 
2009-05-18 01:08:15 PM
Y...y...y...you mean you *intentionally* got pregnant? You're right. I'll never understand that.
 
2009-05-18 01:08:40 PM
unfarkingbelievable: Evilegg: same with me! Funny how that happens.

Anyway, this news is actually pretty coolcruel, from a cold and clinical perspective.


Likelihood of birth defects or conditions such as autism drastically increase if the woman gets pregnant after age 30 or so, this is willful negligence
 
2009-05-18 01:08:41 PM
It's between me, my baby and no one else.

How about whoever has to take care of your child if you kick off before it comes of age?

Selfish coont.
 
2009-05-18 01:08:55 PM
her age is not as important as how she feels inside.

I love you too, Ma!

i42.tinypic.com

/hughughughughug
 
2009-05-18 01:11:04 PM
gopher321: Forget that. The odds are greater that the kids' DNA will be given a good stir by Darwin before being born...a Downs baby is more likely with a mother's advanced age.

By the age of fifty, the chances of a child having autism is 1 in 4. At sixty six, the kid's almost certainly going to have significant mental issues.
 
2009-05-18 01:13:33 PM
Age is not important, insists pregnant 66-year-old

In a surprising turn of events, it has been discovered that 66 year-old pregnant women can be wildly, tragically wrong about things.
 
2009-05-18 01:13:41 PM
 
2009-05-18 01:13:44 PM
3.bp.blogspot.com
 
2009-05-18 01:14:28 PM
fernt-

lol..I was working on her computer, doing a house call. It went from there.

/sorry, no pics
//but I can give you great detailed descriptions
 
2009-05-18 01:15:19 PM
John Coyote: "... and then she gives birth to a beautiful baby, which I will illustrate by pushing this uncooked Cornish game hen through these gray drapes..."

DAMNIT! I cannot for the life of me remember which comedian says that...

/lil' help?
 
2009-05-18 01:16:17 PM
John Coyote: "... and then she gives birth to a beautiful baby, which I will illustrate by pushing this uncooked Cornish game hen through these gray drapes..."

I lol'd
 
2009-05-18 01:17:11 PM
APPROVES
http://tinyurl.com/pkzlos
(copy and paste)
 
2009-05-18 01:17:29 PM
At the age of 66, her chances of being borked by me are reduced to 0.00063183% so I'm getting a ki....oh...OH! Cornish game hens...I'll have two please. Wrapped in a sweater.
 
2009-05-18 01:19:58 PM
I would like to point out that all kids have the risk of losing one or both of their parents to death while they are young. No matter what age the parent is at the birth. Any one of us could get hit by a bus or any other tragic accident. Then there is cancer which surprisingly does not discriminate by age or parental status.

I happen to think she's nuts for doing it because at 30 I don't have the energy to keep up with an 11 year old but it's her choice.

I know. Go be reasonable elsewhere.
 
2009-05-18 01:22:25 PM
Andulamb: Prof Antinori, who helped 62-year-old Briton Patricia Rashbrook give birth three years ago, said he was shocked at the prospect of Mrs Adeney having a child. "I respect the choice medically but I think anyone over 63 is risky because you cannot guarantee the child will have a loving mother or family," he said.

Convenient cutoff you set, Prof. Just high enough so that you're not evil but this woman is. Nicely done.


Yeah, I noticed that too: "It's okay when I do it"...

And what does age have to do with how loving the mother or father is?

/unless it's a typo, and he meant "living"
 
2009-05-18 01:22:51 PM
Hmm, incidence of Down's syndrome goes up roughly by an order of magnitude per decade after 35 or so. Extrapolating to 66, the probability becomes greater than 1.

Sanity (and mathematics) not prevailing here.
 
2009-05-18 01:23:43 PM
Aoshistark: John Coyote: "... and then she gives birth to a beautiful baby, which I will illustrate by pushing this uncooked Cornish game hen through these gray drapes..."

DAMNIT! I cannot for the life of me remember which comedian says that...

/lil' help?


Here you go.
 
2009-05-18 01:25:29 PM
FAIL

DONOR EGGS
DONOR EGGS
DONOR EGGS

Stupidest farking article ever. Not a single mention of DONOR EGGS.

Most IVF centers in the U.S. do not allow women to proceed with IVF using their own eggs once they've reached their 43rd birthday. Why? The success rates drop to to less than 5% and the miscarriage rate goes up to 45%.

Donor egg therapy should work in theory up until a woman dies (60, 70, 80, 90 years) - it doesn't matter. If you prime the menopausal endometrium with estradiol followed by progesterone, the uterine lining will be receptive to an embryo derived from DONOR EGGS. Hell, you can drop monkey embryos into the abdomen of a male monkey, and they'll grow. But it'll likely kill him as it burrows into his superior mesenteric artery.

Donor Egg versus Autologous Egg IVF pregnancy rates - CDC link
 
2009-05-18 01:26:42 PM
I read somewhere that after age 39 a woman's chance of grunting out a retard increases and keeps increasing. That would mean that a 66 year old woman is extremely likely to produce one FARKED UP child.
 
2009-05-18 01:27:08 PM
StandsWithAFist
And what does age have to do with how loving the mother or father is?

I think he meant that the older she is, the greater the chance that she will die and deprive the child of having a loving mother.
 
2009-05-18 01:29:23 PM
Abuse Team Robot: This is the kind of baby boomer crap that really pisses me off.

Why do you care?
 
2009-05-18 01:32:44 PM
StandsWithAFist: And what does age have to do with how loving the mother or father is?

Nothing, except that when these kids are in high school being obnoxious car-stealing teenagers, she'll be in her mid-eighties and barely be able to walk across her house, let alone scold them for not doing their homework.
 
2009-05-18 01:32:50 PM
robsul82

You know who else was a baby?

/sorry for the Godwin
//...or is it...?
 
2009-05-18 01:32:54 PM
Apparently 90% of Farker's moms were over the age of 50.
 
2009-05-18 01:33:00 PM
RocketFood: I read somewhere that after age 39 a woman's chance of grunting out a retard increases and keeps increasing. That would mean that a 66 year old woman is extremely likely to produce one FARKED UP child.

A lot of that is the liability insurance industry preying on unknowing parents/doctors. They warn you to reduce the chance of a major lawsuit. The odds increase. Orders of magnitude? No.

Your odds of being killed in a car crash today are higher, thereby denying the kid of a loving parent. So?
 
2009-05-18 01:33:48 PM
I was going to make a troll about all the urban ethnic minority in the ghetto being raised by a grandma but she's old enough to be a great grandmother.
 
2009-05-18 01:33:48 PM
I would like to see the outcome of this child. Not in a sadistic way, but rather to see how she will react if the child comes out with Down syndrome or some other disability.
 
2009-05-18 01:33:51 PM
Why do you care?

You don't care that your tax money is going to wind up paying for 20 years of massive medical bills that the retard (and I can almost guarantee that the kid WILL be a retard) will generate?

Tell you what then, sport, how about if you personally cover ALL the bills so no other taxpayers will have to?
 
2009-05-18 01:35:41 PM
StandsWithAFist: unless it's a typo, and he meant "living"

He meant loving because we should all be intelligent enough to extrapolate the problem of age being a problem of health and living; dead mothers aren't exactly the most nurturing individuals (for soil, yes).
 
2009-05-18 01:35:47 PM
What a selfish biatch.

/pregnant
//30
///still think Im pushing it
 
2009-05-18 01:36:11 PM
she can have a simple test for down's. if her fetus has down's hopefully she makes a compassionate decision.

there are millions of kids with zero parents. if she passes when the child is a teenager, it is sad, but it is not tragically different than what plenty of other kids have to deal with. the fact that her biology is healthy enough to conceive at her age suggests her health is above average relative to the general population.

understanding of autism is a constantly shifting science. one of the greatest correlative factors in a child receiving an autism diagnosis is how pro-active the doctor is in making such diagnoses.

people invoking darwinian selection to suggest the child is likely to suffer some handicap are highly unlikely to have a good understanding of natural selection. do you realize how much selection has already occurred to even produce a viable embryo? if a viable child is carried to term, 99% of the selection has already occurred.

/actual knowledge - it does a mind good
 
2009-05-18 01:36:25 PM
enjoy your teenage child in your 80s biatch!
 
2009-05-18 01:37:33 PM
Said already, but Yes, I would worry more about medical issues with the baby than the death of the mother.
 
2009-05-18 01:43:08 PM
Nature has its way of telling us not to do something. We just like to believe we are above that with the distractions of money and privledge.

Reality's a biatch.
 
2009-05-18 01:45:10 PM
I just had a baby last week, so I'm really...

...wait, no I'm not, I'm horrified that a 66 year old woman would do something like that. I don't know if using donor eggs would decrease the likelihood of a serious birth defect like autism or downs syndrome but why would you even want to risk it?!
 
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