Just The Ol’ Lady

I’ll be honest. I start to lose interest once you have five or six kids. Until that point I’ll feel genuine delight for you. But once you’ve made a starting lineup for the Blue Jays, I’m not so excited.

A woman in Berlin is about to give birth to her fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth children. Not only that, she’s 65 and will become the oldest new mom of quads in the world. Annegret Raunigk is a teacher on the verge of retirement. Her children range in age from 9-44 and she has told media that she decided to become pregnant again because her nine-year-old daughter asked her for a younger sibling. Hey, instead of one, how about four?

It appears that she’s a single Mom. Raunigk had donated eggs fertilized and implanted several times before these ones took.

Doctors asked to comment on the case say pregnancy is rarely possible in a woman her age and it’s very hard on a body of 65. She responds by asking, How does one have to behave at 65?

The oldest woman to give birth was a woman of 69 in a remote Indian village.

Interestingly, a study in the Canadian Medical Journal this week says doctors aren’t being honest with patients about how few so-called test-tube pregnancies work. They say it’s got a high failure rate, but couples pin their hopes for a family on it. Doesn’t anyone remember that there are millions of children who don’t have families and homes? Frankly, I don’t see what’s so special about this particular woman that she feels the need to reproduce her DNA more than a dozen times while kids are warehoused around the world, hoping to become part of a family.

2 thoughts on “Just The Ol’ Lady”

  1. I so agree with you Lisa. To bad there are not more people like a coworker of mine who adopted a 13 year old just a few weeks ago.

    1. Wow, that’s wonderful. That’s the other thing. People who do adopt, always seem to want infants. It’s understandable. I toss pebbles yet I’m not willing to do it. But then again, I’ve never been overwhelmed by the need to have children at all. 😉

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