We have already had on other occasions information about women who, in menopause, have had babies. I have received this news, originally published in the French newspaper Le Parisien, of a French woman, of Asian origin, who 59 years old is pregnant with triplets. The pregnancy comes from a egg donation originating in Vietnam
According to the newspaper, this almost sexagenary woman is being followed in the Maternity Hospital of Port-Royal, in the Paris region. According to the newspaper the news has not been commented by the head of service but they claim that the delivery is expected in the coming days.
Egg donation is framed in France by the Bioethics Law of 1994 revised in 2004, which requires that the donation be voluntary, anonymous and free. The recipient must suffer from a pathological infertility or there must be a risk of transmission of a serious illness to the child. Both members of the couple should be of childbearing age, and most of the authorized French centers set the age limit of the recipient at 42 years. It is added that the donor must have already had at least one child and be under 37 years old.
So far, around one thousand children have been born in the neighboring country from donations of 'oocytes. The waiting list flutua between 6 and 60 months.
It is not the first case in France of these characteristics, since there is news of a 62-year-old woman had already given birth to a child in 2001, and other cases of French citizens who have performed fertilization and childbirth outside the country .
The news of elderly mothers They always cause controversy. On the one hand there are those who think that their age will not be able to take care of the child properly or leave him orphaned very soon. Others feel tender at the strength of the desire to be a mother. I confess myself unable to judge the maternity of these women.
