It's the tube tying part that makes me do a double take...59 AND had her tubes tied...AND there was just this big story about the 57 year old. I know it's not impossible...but it seems highly unlikely. I'm just skeptical...
Well, neither tube tying or vasectomies are entirely effective forever. A vasectomy has to be rechecked every 7 years to make sure it's holding, I suppose tube tying could be the same way. The body has ways of healing itself. I would say it's a hoax but on cnn, I think they at least check basics on this stuff.
I know a person who had to have 3 vasectomies - both failed attempts resulted in children (which is how they realized that the procedures had failed). The final one is assumed to have worked. Of course, this was like 30 some-odd years ago, and things have changed.
I've done a little researching online...vasectomies are a little more likely to come "undone" than tubals, but it depends on the way the tubal is done--"tying" the tubes vs. cauterizing the tubes. Obviously, cauterizing them is more effective. It seems like (from what I'm reading) that the failure rates increase over the first 10 years, then decline again (but I'm guessing that's b/c of increasing maternal age???) Given that she started having babies early, she certainly could be fertile into her 60s...
CNN is probably less likely to air a story without checking its facts. She does LOOK like she has a twin pregnancy from the pictures...
It still seems a bit fishy to me...but it definitely looks possible, the more I read about it. One way or the other, we should know in a month, right? :)
actually, my grandma never hit menopause! She had a hysterectomy at the age of 57 because of a cancer, but she still hadnt stopped the regular cycles! My mom is now facing the same thing, where doctors are always stunned that she still NEEDS birth control. (Heck...my mom's not too thrilled about it either.)
Women these days hit it sooner than women who had lots of babies. The eggs don't run out so quickly when you spent 9 of every 15 or so months pregnant.
my grandmother had TB during WW2 and almost died from a relapse when my mom was born, so she could only have one child - so yeah..I suppose thats a possibility.
oh..heh. I admit to not having read the whole article. Tube tying would definitely make it seem more difficult- however attention seeking or not, until there's an actual birth it could just be that we dont hear about the rare cases of pregnancies at advanced ages in folks because they don't always make it.
(I'll reply again...just in case you missed it...)
It's the tube tying part that makes me do a double take...59 AND had her tubes tied...AND there was just this big story about the 57 year old. I know it's not impossible...but it seems highly unlikely. I'm just skeptical...that's all.
The 2nd story came out, because of all the "attention' the 1st story generated, but was not created because of it....I mean woman number two lives where? "Rural" Georgia, her story probably would never had been told if reporters weren't looking for their own "scoops".
She had her 1st kid when she was 15..so if her kids did the same thing it's "easy".
My sister had her 1st kid when she was 18...I just became a "Grand-Aunt" like a year or two ago. I'm 31..I'm not ready to be a Grand-Anything - especially since MY 3 kids are 4, and 22 months (twins)
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Date: 2004-11-12 08:38 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-11-12 09:11 am (UTC)The body has ways of healing itself. I would say it's a hoax but on cnn, I think they at least check basics on this stuff.
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Date: 2004-11-12 10:39 am (UTC)CNN is probably less likely to air a story without checking its facts. She does LOOK like she has a twin pregnancy from the pictures...
It still seems a bit fishy to me...but it definitely looks possible, the more I read about it. One way or the other, we should know in a month, right? :)
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Date: 2004-11-12 09:02 am (UTC)It's the tube tying part that makes me do a double take...59 AND had her tubes tied...AND there was just this big story about the 57 year old. I know it's not impossible...but it seems highly unlikely. I'm just skeptical...that's all.
My guess is...
Date: 2004-11-12 10:15 am (UTC)Re: My guess is...
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Date: 2004-11-12 08:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-12 08:58 am (UTC)My sister had her 1st kid when she was 18...I just became a "Grand-Aunt" like a year or two ago. I'm 31..I'm not ready to be a Grand-Anything - especially since MY 3 kids are 4, and 22 months (twins)
Sorry about screwiong up the post order....
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