Nikola Kostic Nikola Kostic had a son at only 13-years-old. His boy, Stanko, repeated after his father and had a kid of his own at 13, which makes Nikola one of the youngest grandfathers in the world at just 26.
: The world's youngest grandmother is Nigerian, and she was only 17. Mum-Zi was just eight years and four months old when she gave birth to a baby girl in 1884. From Nigeria, on an island called Akwa Akpa, now known as the city of Calabar.
Kind 23-Year-Old Student-Athlete Becomes World's Youngest “Grandpa” Tommy Connolly used to be a pretty typical college student.
The average age of grandparents in the U.S. was 67 years. Grandparenthood is more common among older adults (aged 65 and older) than those in midlife (aged 40-64).
The average age of becoming a grandparent is 50, although many individuals become grandparents even earlier, perhaps even in their 30s. 1 These younger grandparents may face a number of challenges. Becoming a grandparent at a young age can scramble all expectations for the second half of life.
The oldest first time grandmother is Marianne Wallenberg (b. 07 Feb 1913, Germany) who was 95 years old when her first grandson Joshua Fritz Wallenberg (Canada) was born at Sinai Hospital, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on 29 April 2008.
There's no maximum age that stops a man from being able to have a baby. You can become a father long into your older years, but there are risks.
The youngest father in the world is reportedly a boy from China, who, at 9 fathered a child with an 8-year-old girl. This occurred in 1910. There is also a 10-year-old father recorded in the USA, no details about the mother. This happened in 2001.
Lina Marcela Medina de Jurado (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlina meˈðina]; born 23 September 1933) is a Peruvian woman who became the youngest confirmed mother in history when she gave birth on 14 May 1939, aged five years, seven months, and 21 days.
The oldest recorded mother to date to conceive was 73 years, while the youngest mother was 5 years old. According to statistics from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, in the UK more than 20 babies are born to women over age 50 per year through in-vitro fertilization with the use of donor oocytes (eggs).
The average age of becoming a grandparent is 50 years for women and a couple of years older for men. Today's grandparents may range in age from 30 to 110, and grandchildren range from newborns to retirees.
Oldest fathers: medical considerations
The website of the world record authority Guinness World Records lists the oldest father ever as Australian Les Colley (1898-1998), who allegedly fathered his ninth child at age 92 with a Fijian woman he met through a dating agency.
67 of the 69 children were said to have survived infancy. Allegedly Vassilyev also had six sets of twins and two sets of triplets with a second wife, for another 18 children in eight births; he fathered a total of 87 children.
World's youngest mothers on record
She was five years and seven months. There are also two recorded cases of young girls having babies at 6 years of age, one from India and one from Ukraine. Both occurred in the 1930s. An 8-year-old-girl gave birth to a healthy baby boy, fathered by a nine-year-old in China.
Erramatti Mangayamma at age 74 gave birth to twins in India last week after becoming pregnant through IVF, making her the oldest person ever to give birth, according to her doctors, and reigniting debate over so-called geriatric pregnancies.
The most fertile woman in history is alleged to be an 18th-century Russian peasant called Valentina Vassilyev. Between 1725 and 1765, she is recorded as giving birth to a total of 69 children – 67 of whom survived infancy. This included 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets.
From a biological standpoint, experts recommend a man is best suited to fatherhood from his late 20s to early 30s. It is still possible for men to father a child in their 50s and older. According to Guinness World Records, the oldest man to father a child was 92 years old at the time of the birth.
Am I too old? While certain risks may rise with age, men continue to produce sperm throughout their lives and can father healthy children into old age.
Pregnancy in Your 40s
If you get pregnant after 35 years old, experts call this an “advanced maternal age” pregnancy. But it's still possible to get pregnant and deliver a healthy baby in your 40s. Childbirth at older ages has become more common too. Since the 1990s, birth rates in people aged 40-44 have gone up.
Age and sperm
Men younger than 40 have a better chance of fathering a child than those older than 40. The quality of the sperm men produce seems to decline as they get older. Most men make millions of new sperm every day, but men older than 40 have fewer healthy sperm than younger men.
The mean age of grandparents was only slightly younger than other survey participants, at 69.1 years compared to 70.7. The majority of respondents who are regularly grandparenting were in the 60 to 79 age group, with less than eight per cent in the 50- 59 age group.
Researchers found that caregiving grandparents had a 37% chance of living longer when compared to non-caregiving grandparents and non-grandparents. What is this?
This may be one evolutionary, ultimate reason why older parents are more likely to have daughters. Parents may be evolutionarily designed to have more daughters when they are older, so that, when they die, they are less likely to leave sons who have not sexually matured.
The study, published 30 August in Human Reproduction , used a federal repository of nearly 170 million birth records to find that the average dad is now 30.9 years old at their child's birth—and that 9% of newborns' fathers are at least 40 years old.