Lots of Americans have weighed in on the issue of age-limits for older women, mostly those who have passed menopause, becoming new mothers now that the oldest new mother known to Americans has died.
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Maria del Carmen Bousada of Spain was 69 when she died earlier this week, about three years after she gave birth to twin boys in December 2006. She received donated eggs, sperm and in-vitro fertilization.
(Though she is listed in the Guiness Record as the oldest new mother on record, there have been women who were older, as mentioned in an earlier post at itsyourbirthdaybabies. )
Media reports said Bousada told personnel at Pacific Fertility Center in Los Angeles that she was 55 years old, though she was 66 at the time, to receive fertility treatment. Fifty-five is the cutoff age for IVF treatment in the U.S.
Debate has raged since about older women, new motherhood, and help from fertility clinics.
Bousada's sons are two-year-olds. She believed she would live long enough to raise the children.
