DOCS: Too Old to be a Mum?

Why would women old enough to be great-grandmothers want to have children? Well, the World’s Oldest Mother, 70 year-old Rajo Devi from Delhi, was delighted that modern fertility treatment enabled her to have her first child after 50 years of marriage. Likewise, 58-year-old Sue Tollefesen was thrilled when she become Britain’s Oldest Mum. Doctors feared her ‘hard abdominal mass’ was cancerous until they discovered she was pregnant! In America, blind 64 year-old Janise Wulf has toddlers aged three and six. Meet the old age mums prepared to push the ethical limits and risk social stigma for the love of a child.









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