So there is an article about this in the Sunday Times today, women who aged well over 60 want to become mothers.

The article mentions Maria del Carmen Bousada who gave birth for the first time to twins (Christian and Pau) at the age of 67. She lived in Spain and her pregnancy and subsequent birth to the twins caused a large furore within the country with many people saying she was far too old to have children. In fact in a lot of these cases nature seems to deem these ladies to old as they are becoming pregnant via IVF. 

Sadly last Sunday Maria del Carmen Bousada died of ovarian cancer leaving her twins orphans, they were only 2 years old and will never have really got to know their mother and most likely won’t be able to remember her when they are older. Maria was quoted as saying “she wished they were 18 already, as then i would have been able to see them grow up”. Well sorry but the chance that she would have been alive to see them reach 18 was something she must have known wasn’t  a sure thing. She would have been 85 years old when they were 18, an age not all women can aspire to on live too (not that we know when we are going to die but hey lets be realistic). 

There is going to be a channel 4 programme this thursday The Worlds oldest mums and it documents a reporter journey across the globe looking at older mums ie 60 ++ and their children. 

What do you think?