1. Susan DeVere

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At the age of 48 years, Susan suddenly found herself pregnant for the first time, conceiving naturally. Her doctor was surprised and worried, because he thought Susan was old to be a first-time mum, but the pregnancy went fine, and the delivery also went as planned. Susan says motherhood and caring for her son, Byron has been keeping her young, so no one mistakes her for a granny.

2. Tracey Britten

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The 50-year-old British mother was the island’s oldest mother of quadruplets. She gave birth to 3 girls and a boy in 2018 via Cesarean section at 31 weeks. The babies were conceived at an IVF clinic in Cyprus, to join their 3 grown-up siblings and Tracey’s 8 grandchildren.

3. Catherine Colonges

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The 52-years-old French lady in Togo already had two grown-up sons and a daughter in her teens (plus she was also a grandmother), when she gave birth to her triplets after conceiving naturally at the age of 51.

4. Debbie Hughes

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The British woman’s story is even more interesting: she did not only become pregnant naturally, but she conceived while taking birth control pills. She gave birth to her son at the age of 53. She already had two sons, and two granddaughters by the time she welcomed her youngest son.

5. Lucy Gauss Kenney

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The American lady was 53 years old when she had her youngest and last child – this all happened in 1880, at a time when IVF and similar procedures were by far not available!

6. Solange Couto dos Santos

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The Brazilian actress is a popular star of her home country’s TV series. She married a student 30 years younger than her in 2010, and had a child with him in 2011, at the age of 54. She already had two other children from her previous relationships.

7. Aracelia Garcia

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The 54 years old American lady conceived naturally, without any hormone replacement therapy and give birth to triplets by Cesarean section in 2000. Her healthy girls are named Arianna, Brianna, and Cecelia, just as the ABC starts.

8. Elizabeth Greenhill

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Even in the 17th century there were women who could give birth over 50. The Englishwoman Elizabeth Greenhill gave birth to her 39th child in 1669. at the age of 54. She is a record holder in history for the number of children succesfully delivered. She even claimed that she could have been able to have some more kids if her husband hadn’t died before the birth of their youngest child.

9. Kathleen Campbell

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Back to the 20th century, this British lady gave birth to her son in 1987, when she was 55 years old. Her other 5 children were between 15 and 22, and she already had grandchildren at this age. Her husband was 65 years old when she delivered her 7th baby.

10. Leontina Albina

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The Chilean lady was 55 years old when she had a child in 1981.

11. Raisa Akhmadeeva

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The Russian resident of the city of Ulyanovsk was 56 years old when she had a Cesarean section at her first childbirth in 2008. Her husband was already the father of 3, but they wanted to have a baby together.

12. Natalya Surkova

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The oldest mother in Russia was 57, mother of two adult children when she gave birth to her daughter in 1996. She was divorced and already diagnosed as premenopausal, but after 1,5 years of hormonal therapy she became pregnant with the child of her new partner who was childless before.

13. Ruth Kistler

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This american lady gave birth to a daughter at the age of 57, in 1956, before IVF therapy became available. She was the oldest woman ever to conceive naturally and deliver a child succesfully. She lived to raise the little girl: she died at the age of 83, leving her 26 years old child behind.

14. Dawn Brooke

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The British lady from the island of Guernsey gave birth to her son at the age of 59. The conception was aided by hormone therapy, but finally she became pregnant unexpectedly. She even thought her pregnancy symptoms were cancer signs. Hormone therapy probably gave her ovulation even after menopause, so she could conceive naturally and deliver the baby succesfully.

15. Wenick Ellen Ellis

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Well before the age of hormone therapies and IVF, in 1776 a 72 year-old woman conceived naturally and gave birth to her 13th child, but unfortunately the baby did not survive.

16. Adriana Iliescu

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The Romanian lady was 66 years old when she delivered her daughter as a single mother in 2005. She could not conceive naturally, so she undervent repeated IVF therapies for 9 years. She expected triplets, but one of the babies died in the womb, one of them was born dead, so only one daughter survived. Eliza was also born prematurely, but her mother could take her home from the hospital. The mother assigned the doctor who performed the IVD procedure as the little girl’s future guardian after her death.

17. Maria del Carmen Bousada Lara

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The Spanish lady born in 1940 gave birth to her twin boys, Christian and Pau in 2006, at the age of 66. The babies were conceived via IVF with the help of donated eggs. She was so dedicated to have a baby that she sold her house in Spain to pay for the procedure, and she also deceived the doctors about her actual age. She was not worried about raising the kids, because she hoped to inherit her mother’s genes, who lived to the age of 101. Unfortunately she died 3 years later.

18. Annegret Raunigk

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The German mother and grandmother was 65 years old at the time she delivered quadruplets by Cesarean section in 2015. She was the mother of 13 other kids when the quadruplets were born at 26 weeks. She conceived by IVF in an Ukrainian clinic.

19. Daljinder Kaur

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The Indian lady was 72 and her husband was 79 at the time when she gave birth to a child. The baby boy was also conceived with the help of IVF. She badly wanted to have a baby of her own, so she underwent years of IVF therapy till she finally conceived. Her real age is not proven, though, as she didn’t have a birth certifivate of her own – but in any case, she was over 70 at the time of giving birth.

20. Bhateri Devi

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The 66 years old Indian lady had triplets in 2010. The IVF procedure was performed by a controversial Indian clinic, and it was the third IVF round which was finally succesful. Her husband, Deva is 44 years old, and they live in a polygamous marriage, together with other two childless wives.

21. Satyabhama Mahapatra

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Also in India the 65 year-old lady gave birth to a son in 2003. She had the baby through IVF, using an egg donated by Satyabhama’s niece, fertilized with her husband’s sperm. The little boy is the first child of the old couple.

22. Janise Wulf

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The 62-year old lady from California was already the mother of 11, grandmother of 20, and also the great-grandmother of three kids when she had ther 12th child in 2006.

23. Patricia Rashbrook

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One of Great Britain’s oldest mums had two grown-up kids when she underwent fertility treatment and had her third child at the age of 63. The renowned child psychiatrist’s older children are from her previous marriage, but they wanted to have a baby together with her new husband as well.

24. Rosanna Della Corte

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The Italian lady living north of Rome gave birth to her son, Riccardo in 1994 when she was 62 years old. At that time she was considered record-breakingly old to have a baby.

25. Janet Maslin-Bosher

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One of Britain’s oldest mothers to twins had her babies in 2002, at the age of 58. She had IVF treatments and had the babies via embryo donation. The couple spent their savings for the treatments, and when Janet’s husband, Martin died from a heart attack at the age of 64, the family was left with limited financial resources.

26. Rajo Devi Lohan

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The Indian lady gave birth to her daughter, Naveen in 2008, when she was 69 years old. She became a mother for the first time then, with the help of IVF therapy. She nearly died from complications at her daughter’s birth, but she considers her daughter to be a blessing. She hopes to get her daughter married at the age of 15.

27. Omkari Panwar

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Omkari and her husband already had two daughters when the desire to have a male heir won over them, and they seeked medical help to conceive. In 2008 the 70-year-old Omkari gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. Thes spent all their savings and a bank loan to have the IVF treatment.

28. Elizabeth Adeney

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The succesful businesswoman became pregnant in 2009, after several unsuccesful IVF rounds, and gave birth to her son at the age of 66. The took the treatments at an Ukrainian clinic, as she was not offered treatment in Britain because of her age.

29. Memmune Tiryaki

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The Turkish lady was 64 years old in 2006, when her IVF treatment resulted in a pregnancy. She and her 62-year-old husband were trying to have a baby for 35 years, but only the IVF with a donor egg could help them. Their son was born healthily.

30. Haya Shahar

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The Israeli lady’s 46-year marriage was childless, until her pregnancy through