Baby at 50? Between Love and Death

For a lady getting pregnant at age 50 years old would be way too challenging. I think that after age 35 to 40 years old it isn't easy to get pregnant. A 50 year old man can become a dad although I wouldn't marry such a man. If a lady has a baby when she is 40 years old then she will be 58 years old when her child reaches 18 years old. If a 50 year old lady has medical assistance to get pregnant she will be aged 68 years old when her child is 18 years old. I think aged 50 years old is far too late for having a new baby. By that age some people become a grand parent.

There have been cases of women giving birth safely, at 50. However, extra care and precautions have to be taken. The woman's health has to be assessed really well, to ensure both her and the baby's safety all throughout the pregnancy and delivery. Not many woman can conceive at that age, though. Most women may already be on their menopausal stage. It's best to consult the doctor for this. I believe if he truly loves her, he would make sure that impregnating her would not harm her life, and the baby's.

It depends on the health and also whether the woman had children previously. And if it is her second marriage , if she had no chidden in her previous marriage and also if the husband had no children in his previous marriage. There are many situations where they really want a child between them even if they may not live to see the child graduate from high school or enter university or go into the work force. You cannot go and think of the man as a selfish basted because he wants a child and the wife is now fifty. And sometimes a woman will have a child at 50 when she already had children previous. I suppose that is all right, when it is near the end of her fertile period, but why the difference if she never had children before that? I was in my mid fifties when I went into menopause and my husband and I were still trying, so age does not matter. It is the health of the couple and the situation.

Though 50 years of age would be considered menopausal,many women have conceived naturally at that age,and even later...I understand the UK's oldest Mother to have been 55 at the time of the birth,to say nothing of those having undergone IVF treatment beyond that age..I just don't like the idea of raising a child if I was approaching retirement age myself,but maybe that's just me....

I would never want a baby at this age, because taking care of a child takes a lot of time and energy. And I think children like it when their parents are young. It would be awkward when people would be like "ooh, is that your grandson?" when it's actually your son...

Yes it is possible for a women to have a baby at 50. At any age pregnancy is risk, it is more risky after your 30's because of more genetic complications then in your early 20's and 30's. But a lot of woman in there older age have perfectly healthy normal babies. If something happened to my husband and I got remarried and both me and the guy I was with wanted to have a baby together there isn't any reason why a person can't try. When pregnant your always at risk of dying or the baby not making it the age is just a number and you will be seen more often for health issues but that doesn't mean that person will have any at all. I'm 23 and having my second baby and I'm stuck in the hospital till my baby is born just because I'm a smaller framed women my body isn't made to hold a pregnancy to full term with out help of medications stopping contractions or a change in diet that doesn't make me a high risk pregnancy it just means I have to be watched closer. Any women over 40 will be atomically high risk even if she is completely healthy and is actually low risk.

I think that is definitely too old if you ask me... To have a kid! They will be a senior citizen by the time their kid graduates high school! I think even 40 is pushing it. I don't know what I would do in that situation. I would probably have to break up with the guy because we didn't see eye to eye on our future.