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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friend got married at 44, had 2 IVF babies - at 46 and 48.[/quote]

Those are donor egg babies.   There are only a handful of own egg pregnancies from IVF over 46 that have ever worked in the history of time. 
I would bet my life savings those were from a donor. [/quote]

This. My RE told me that he things Hollywood does such an injustice to women lying about having babies at 50. Maybe they froze their eggs a long time ago, but they weren’t natural pregnancies. [/quote]

I made the post about the friend.  That's really interesting - I have never gotten into the details (other than knowing they were some kind of fertility assisted births).  Now I wonder if they are donor eggs or if she froze eggs beforehand.  They don't seem to have a ton of money so both seem a bit unexpected but you never know.[/quote]

No we do know. Biology dictates she did not have two
Oops babies at 46 and 48. [/quote]

It's more likely to have oops babies at 46 and 48 than IVF babies unless the IVF is donor egg or the eggs were frozen at least 10+ years ago.  
Own egg IVF almost never works after age 44 because old eggs are very fragile and can't take the lab manipulation.  IVF success rates are microscopically low at 45 and 
I think the oldest IVF (own egg) cycle [b]of all-time[/b] is something like 47.

The technology to freeze eggs was only refined with the past 10 years.  Prior to that it was done without much success at all.  It's also usually only done on eggs under age 35.  So if a woman had successful IVF at 46 and 48 anytime in recent years it's guaranteed she did donor egg (or donor embryo) IVF.  The technology wasn't there to freeze her eggs when she was young enough to have eggs that were viable for freezing (and as stated above she's too old for own-egg IVF).

That said, this whole schema will change in the years to come because there is a growing cohort of women who are freezing their eggs in their 20s and 30s and the technology for freezing eggs has vastly improved---giving an almost 100% successful thaw rate!   We'll start to see a lot of own (frozen) egg babies by women in their 40's and 50's in the years to come.  
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