Chances of getting pregnant at 50?

[Anonymous]

you can have a baby with donor eggs but your own eggs are too old at this point. it doesn’t matter that you still have your period. the problem is that 50 year eggs are no longer viable. sorry...

[Anonymous]

My grandma had her last baby in 1932 at age 48. My o.b. Said she delivered a naturally conceived (and by all indicators healthy) baby to a 56 yo mother. That said, very highly unlikely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:you can have a baby with donor eggs but your own eggs are too old at this point. it doesn’t matter that you still have your period. the problem is that 50 year eggs are no longer viable. sorry...

Not true. I have a really close friend who is pregnant. She is 49. Her youngest child is 18. She didn’t even find out she was pregnant until she was almost five months! It wasn’t even on her radar. She is due in three weeks. The baby looks great!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you can have a baby with donor eggs but your own eggs are too old at this point. it doesn’t matter that you still have your period. the problem is that 50 year eggs are no longer viable. sorry...

Not true. I have a really close friend who is pregnant. She is 49. Her youngest child is 18. She didn’t even find out she was pregnant until she was almost five months! It wasn’t even on her radar. She is due in three weeks. The baby looks great!

Yeah, ok but I’m still waiting for a woman to write that she had a baby with her own eggs at 50 or higher. That’s not a troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you can have a baby with donor eggs but your own eggs are too old at this point. it doesn’t matter that you still have your period. the problem is that 50 year eggs are no longer viable. sorry...

Not true. I have a really close friend who is pregnant. She is 49. Her youngest child is 18. She didn’t even find out she was pregnant until she was almost five months! It wasn’t even on her radar. She is due in three weeks. The baby looks great!

Still she is younger than OP. I bet your friend became pregnant at 48 and gave birth at 49. OP is 50 already and is asking can she give birth with her own eggs. There’s a difference.

[Anonymous]

A colleague of mine, who is well over 50, was born to a 50-year-old mom.

The German woman who had ivf donor/donor quads had her last natural conception at ~56.

[Anonymous]

There are risks, but you can do it!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38503168

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can still get pregnant. Carrying to term is unlikely.

This. I got pregnant quickly at age 41 without even really trying other than no birth control, and gave birth at 42 full term. At age 43 and 45 still had no problem getting pregnant, but miscarriages. At 46, I believe it is possible I can get pregnant, I am pretty sure said pregnancy would not be viable.

[Anonymous]

My grandma was in her late 40's when she had my aunt. Her oldest daughter was 24 at the time. I also know a 49 year old I worked with that got pregnant and gave birth at 50 and it was a complete surprise. It's a bit wrong to say that someone giving birth at 50 are doing a disservice to their kids, because even if you give birth at 50 like my coworker - and it was her own egg, too - it means her kid will be 20 when she is 70. She can't help that, no more than my grandma could help being 68 and mother to a 20 year old. She was a hard core Catholic and birth control wasn't a thing. If it happens late in life no one should be shamed for it as you never know if it was an oops baby unless they confirm they used a donor. I know my coworker and grandma would feel terrible if someone told them they shouldn't be moms at that age. It just happens sometimes.

[Anonymous]

The Susie sunshine’s are worse than the Debbie downers! The odds of either a natural first time pregnancy are tiny (a little higher odds for those who had prior pregnancies) and also tiny even with IVF at that age. And the odds of birth defects are exponential - or risks to your own health. Arguing by the single example of someone you know who had a kid that age is not logic based. I don’t get the people who think unrealistic optimism is being supportive.

[Anonymous]

Oh lord. Please don’t. My mother is 68 and had early onset dementia. Imaging saddling an 18 year old with that. You just don’t know how you’re going to age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Susie sunshine’s are worse than the Debbie downers! The odds of either a natural first time pregnancy are tiny (a little higher odds for those who had prior pregnancies) and also tiny even with IVF at that age. And the odds of birth defects are exponential - or risks to your own health. Arguing by the single example of someone you know who had a kid that age is not logic based. I don’t get the people who think unrealistic optimism is being supportive.

I'm sorry, I'm just reciting from factual life experience. I am not promoting anything. All I am saying, or have said, is that people in my family have done it bumping up against 50 and I know of people that did have a kid at 50. I'm sorry you don't know of anyone in your circle that has never had this happen, but don't shoot down the rest of us who have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can still get pregnant. Carrying to term is unlikely.

This.

A pregnancy is not exceptional even at 50. However, it would almost certainly result in miscarriage. Do you really want to deal with that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Susie sunshine’s are worse than the Debbie downers! The odds of either a natural first time pregnancy are tiny (a little higher odds for those who had prior pregnancies) and also tiny even with IVF at that age. And the odds of birth defects are exponential - or risks to your own health. Arguing by the single example of someone you know who had a kid that age is not logic based. I don’t get the people who think unrealistic optimism is being supportive.

I'm sorry, I'm just reciting from factual life experience. I am not promoting anything. All I am saying, or have said, is that people in my family have done it bumping up against 50 and I know of people that did have a kid at 50. I'm sorry you don't know of anyone in your circle that has never had this happen, but don't shoot down the rest of us who have.

Fine that someone or a few in your family have and you have extremely unique genes. The odds of most anyone getting pregnant and carrying to term and having a healthy baby is minuscule. It’s actual cruel to perpetuate that it’s “normal” or a regular thing.

[Anonymous]

This may be helpful: https://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/having-a-baby-at-50

https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/pregnant-50-rare-conceivable-experts-article-1.2590603

According to a physician interviewed for above article, "after age 45, a woman's likelihood of getting pregnant naturally is less than 4%, and that number plummets to 1% once she hits 50."