Originally Posted by
wrenchjockey
Considering the fact that my mother was pregnant with me at the SAME TIME as Mrs. Neighbor was pregnant with her son, I am officially saying you're full of shit here. There are also many examples of men fathering children into their 80's and beyond. Granted the likelihood of birth defects increases exponentially with the age of the mother past 40 (pregnancies after age 35 are considered 'geriatric pregnancies'), it is certainly possible.
I don't disagree with your theory of him fathering the baby with one of his daughters at all. I'm just pointing out that it's possible for these two nutjobs to be the legit parents of the 2 year old.
You do understand that some women don't go through menopause until mid 50's or later, right?
It's not about menopause.
The egg quality drops dramatically after late 30s, and each year gets much, much worse. 43 is staggeringly worse than 40. 46 is staggeringly worse than 43. And so on.
There is a common misconception that menopause equals the start of infertility. Incorrect. Many women have periods into their 50s, but their ability to conceive had often ended more than a decade prior.
If your mother's friend really had a natural child at age 50, she was in a tiny, tiny percentage of people of that age who have managed to do so.
In fact call up any IVF doctor and ask them if they will do the procedure with your wife's own eggs. Tell them that she's 45. You won't find a single one willing to do it, even if you offer to pay extra and sign all kinds of release forms. They refuse to do this because the chance of the eggs being good is so tiny that they don't want to do a useless procedure, even if the patient is delusional and wants it. A few super-unethical doctors will do it anyway for the money, but almost all of them will stop allowing a woman to use her own eggs after 43-44, and they will typically discourage it after age 41-42.
It is not impossible that the youngest child here is the product of a natural pregnancy with the 47-year-old mother, but it's much more likely that there's something weird going on with that last child, and I'm surprised the possibility hasn't been raised in any of the articles.