Elizabeth Adeney will be Britains Oldest New Mum

May 16, 2009 by Baby Chums
Filed under: News

Britain’s oldest new mother is going to be Elizabeth Adeney. At the ripe age of 66, she is four years older than the previous controversial record holder. Ms Adeney is a successful business woman, is in good health and looking forward to the birth of her child.

Did you know? The worlds oldest new mum was 70-year-old Omkari Panwar from India, who had a twin boy and girl last year.

Elizabeth Adeney is thought to have undergone IVF treatment in the Ukraine because most British clinics will not treat women over the age of 50. Her pregnancy will likely rekindle the public debate over late motherhood and the ability of science to enable women in their fifties and sixties to become mothers, where nature would not previously.

Mrs Adeney will be just short of her 80th birthday when her child becomes a teenager.
A friend said she had been desperate to conceive for years.

A friend was qouted as saying: “She was desperate for a child. She was over the moon when she learned last year that she was pregnant and has been quite open about it - it’s not the sort of thing she can hide.

“Elizabeth has had a pretty good pregnancy. She has been very well, considering her age - I’m amazed how she keeps going.

“She does get up a little later in the mornings than she used to and sometimes spends an hour or two at home before going to work but she is still at her business Monday to Friday.”

Yesterday, she declined to discuss her pregnancy.

“I am a private person and while I appreciate there may be some publicity I will just ignore it,’ she said.
“This has been a very personal decision and I do not feel I have to give interviews or talk to anyone in the media about what I have decided to do and where I have done it.”

A spokesman for the Church of England said: ‘”A child is a gift not a right.

“For those who have never received that gift we can well understand their desire to have children but it is always important to think in those circumstances about what is really in the child’s best interests.”

One of the chief health risks to older mothers is pre-eclampsia, which can lead to blood clots and serious complications, or even death.

However, the condition, which causes high blood pressure, can be detected by regular checks.