This is complete BS, right? Pregnant at 48 after decades of trying

[Anonymous]

https://people.com/woman-becomes-widow-38-pregnant-husbands-baby-10-years-later-11786129

This can't possibly be true, right? She has a history of at least 6 miscarriages and decades of trying. She's claiming she's using her own eggs at 48 and carrying to term? WTF?

[Anonymous]

Donor egg and her late husband’s sperm is the most likely answer.

[Anonymous]

It doesn’t say decades of trying. It says she tried in 2013-14 and then started trying again in 2024. Assuming she froze eggs in 2014 when she was doing IVF, it’s quite believable.

[Anonymous]

Even if she didn’t freeze eggs, it’s possible- we’re talking low odds, not powerball lottery odds. She wouldn’t even be close to the record of a ‘naturally’ conceived pregnancy.

Btw, I’m 48 with fairly regular periods and my ob/gyn put the fear of god in me last appointment. Has 2 patients that are pregnant and are my age-they thought missed periods were menopause. Nope, they were pregnant. When I tell you I broke out in a cold sweat! DH got a vasectomy that very month.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t say decades of trying. It says she tried in 2013-14 and then started trying again in 2024. Assuming she froze eggs in 2014 when she was doing IVF, it’s quite believable.

It says that these are new eggs that she harvested and had none left from the original IVF (miscarried all of them)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even if she didn’t freeze eggs, it’s possible- we’re talking low odds, not powerball lottery odds. She wouldn’t even be close to the record of a ‘naturally’ conceived pregnancy.

Btw, I’m 48 with fairly regular periods and my ob/gyn put the fear of god in me last appointment. Has 2 patients that are pregnant and are my age-they thought missed periods were menopause. Nope, they were pregnant. When I tell you I broke out in a cold sweat! DH got a vasectomy that very month.

The odds of a live birth are under 5% at 42 which is why IVF clinics dont take patients over 42. I'm pretty sure we're talking 0.1% or lower odds with own eggs at 48. Donor eggs are a different story.

[Anonymous]

Abort

[Anonymous]

The odds of a live birth are under 5% at 42 which is why IVF clinics dont take patients over 42. I'm pretty sure we're talking 0.1% or lower odds with own eggs at 48. Donor eggs are a different story.

Here’s an old (dated advice) study that followed 105 women ages 45-51.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/45103/

This shows that until you hit actual menopause, there’s a reason standard advice is to use some form of bc. 0.1% still means 1 in 10,000. As an individual it means it’s unlikely. At the population level, well,it’s not unheard of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The odds of a live birth are under 5% at 42 which is why IVF clinics dont take patients over 42. I'm pretty sure we're talking 0.1% or lower odds with own eggs at 48. Donor eggs are a different story.

Here’s an old (dated advice) study that followed 105 women ages 45-51.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/45103/

This shows that until you hit actual menopause, there’s a reason standard advice is to use some form of bc. 0.1% still means 1 in 10,000. As an individual it means it’s unlikely. At the population level, well,it’s not unheard of.

But we're talking someone who has been infertile for a decade. Strong miscarriage record. The odds have to be even lower at that point.

[Anonymous]

Understand the differences:

1. Carrying to term a live baby at 48 with 48 year old eggs is nothing short of miraculous. The chances are *negligible* it will happen to you.

2. Getting a positive pregnancy test at 48 with 48 year old eggs sometimes happens. They will nearly all be EARLY miscarriages, ie, ones for which you don't necessarily need any sort of intervention (they're like bad periods). The rest will be slightly later miscarriages that do need intervention such as D&C. Poster with the OB-GYN, you can relax. Your OB didn't tell you the whole story.

3. Getting a live birth with younger eggs that were frozen, or a donor egg, at 48, and the right cocktail of drugs, has a much higher chance of success. Not a high one! But markedly increased compared to 1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Abort

Why would this person do that with a desired pregnancy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://people.com/woman-becomes-widow-38-pregnant-husbands-baby-10-years-later-11786129

This can't possibly be true, right? She has a history of at least 6 miscarriages and decades of trying. She's claiming she's using her own eggs at 48 and carrying to term? WTF?

Sounds like she’s much further along this time.

She also had a procedure before trying this time and it might have fixed whatever caused the other miscarriages.

Lastly, it is possible to have six abnormal embryos and then one normal one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The odds of a live birth are under 5% at 42 which is why IVF clinics dont take patients over 42. I'm pretty sure we're talking 0.1% or lower odds with own eggs at 48. Donor eggs are a different story.

Here’s an old (dated advice) study that followed 105 women ages 45-51.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/45103/

This shows that until you hit actual menopause, there’s a reason standard advice is to use some form of bc. 0.1% still means 1 in 10,000. As an individual it means it’s unlikely. At the population level, well,it’s not unheard of.

But we're talking someone who has been infertile for a decade. Strong miscarriage record. The odds have to be even lower at that point.

It doesn’t say that she was infertile for a decade. It says she tried 3 times during a 1 year period during which she was under enormous stress, and then tried once in the intervening 10 years.

I am also not seeing where it says she ran out of eggs and did another retrieval.

[Anonymous]

Donor egg? Lesson here is to do this at 38, then figure out relationship stuff.

[Anonymous]

Her father is dead; her mom has Parkinson’s, and needs care; her baby’s father has passed and may have a genetic brain tumor and she’s going to be close to 70 when kid starts college, leaving child alone in the world with possible inherited medical problems. How selfish. Why didn’t she adopt?!