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).
While a 92-year-old woman delivering a 60-year-old baby may sound like a bizarre plot twist from the movie “Benjamin Button,” it's true. Huang Yijun, 92, of southern China, recently delivered a child which she'd been carrying for well over half a century. The baby wasn't alive, however.
In a tale that challenges the notion of the ticking biological clock, a British woman has claimed a record for giving birth at the age of 59 after falling pregnant naturally. It is believed that Dawn Brooke, who is now 69, was the oldest woman to give birth without fertility treatment.
An Indian woman has become the "world's oldest mother" after giving birth to a baby weighing just 1lb 5oz. 75-year-old Prabha Devi welcomed her first child - a baby girl - via C-section last week in Kota's private Kinker Hospital in Rajasthan.
“It's exceptionally rare for patients to get pregnant naturally at 50 or over 45. They make history,” said Dr. David Keefe, an obstetrician-gynecologist and fertility researcher at New York University. In part that's because around age 50, many women are entering menopause, after which egg harvesting isn't possible.
A woman's peak reproductive years are between the late teens and late 20s. By age 30, fertility (the ability to get pregnant) starts to decline. This decline happens faster once you reach your mid-30s. By 45, fertility has declined so much that getting pregnant naturally is unlikely.
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.
Ectopic pregnancies are most commonly found in the fallopian tubes or on peritoneal surfaces in the pelvis, including on the ovaries and omentum [1]. Pregnancy after hysterectomy is extremely rare, with the first case of ectopic pregnancy after hysterectomy reported by Wendler in 1895 [2,3,4].
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.
Estela Melendez said she never knew she had been pregnant
A 91-year-old woman discovered she has been carrying a foetus in her womb for more than 60 years. Estela Melendez, 91, from the small town of La Boca in Chile, was given the news by doctors after having an x-ray following a fall.
Xinju Tian, who was 67 years old when she gave birth in 2023, set a new record for the oldest woman to give birth naturally. In late October 2019, it was reported that 67-year-old Xinju Tian had given birth to a healthy baby girl, making international headlines.
Naomi Campbell has no regrets welcoming her first baby at 50 years old.
In 2006, Carmela Bousada of Spain became what was believed to be the oldest new mother when she delivered twin boys at age 66. Before that, Romanian citizen Adriana Iliescu gave birth to a baby girl in January 2005, also at 66. Bousada was 130 days older than Iliescu when she gave birth.
Though there are two unconfirmed reports of older fathers, Les Colley holds the official record after his partner gave birth to a son in 1993. The Australian pensioner had his ninth child, Oswald, to his third wife two months before he turned 93.
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.
Peak male fertility is around 25-29 years old. Sperm quality begins to decline at 30. At 45, men begin to experience a significant decrease in semen volume. Older men can also take longer to conceive a child.
Although a man's fertility can theoretically last until death, sperm production has been found to decline from around the age of 50. Although it is still possible to conceive a child, and many men do have children in their 50s or later, it may take longer for you and your partner to become pregnant.
According to research, a woman can have somewhere around 15 to 30 babies in her lifetime.
Genghis Khan is known as one of the greatest warriors in the history of the world, but that is not the only thing he is known for. He is also known for being the man who had the most kids in the world.
The man named Jonathan, aged 41, could be fined more than €100,000 (£88,000) if he tries to donate again. He was banned from donating to fertility clinics in the Netherlands in 2017 after it emerged he had fathered more than 100 children.