The hard facts about older women and fertility — but are the Irish listening?
Briton Susan Tollefsen became a first-time mum aged 57, after IVF, in 2008. The world’s oldest IVF mum gave birth in 2009, in India, aged 70.
Do breakthroughs in science mean we are too old to have a baby? “With assisted reproduction, there are no limits — you can get pregnant through egg donation [eggs donated by a younger woman] at any age, once the womb is there,” says Dr David Walsh, medical director at Sims IVF clinic.
