Elderly mothers #general


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I'd say it was incredibly incredibly unlikely, though not impossible. Some years ago I did some researchj looking at the influence of maternal and paternal age in England and Wales on the occurrence of a particular disease. In 1961 (the earliest year I looked at) there were 811281 live births in England and Wales in total. Of these 21 had a maternal age >50, so even for any age over 50 it would be less than one in 40,000 births. Since the decrease is exponential, age 52 would be as rare as hen's teeth, though remotely possible (maybe one case every decade or so in a small country like, for example, Lithuania). Misattributed mothers (due to underage pregnancies where an adult takes the role) would outnumber these cases hundreds of fold. The table for 1961 for England is below. 

Age 1961
13 23
14 133
15 721
16 3740
17 10272
18 18252
19 26645
20 35534
21 46918
22 53147
23 57143
24 57087
25 57134
26 54026
27 48991
28 46193
29 42196
30 39581
31 34355
32 29903
33 25338
34 23109
35 20853
36 17510
37 14959
38 13186
39 11008
40 8884
41 6183
42 3517
43 2080
44 1252
45 729
46 396
47 167
48 68
49 27
50+ 21
Total 811281



Aubrey Blumsohn

UK


Mel Comisarow
 

I had a second cousin, the fifth child in his family, who was born when his mother was 52. His siblings were 24-, 23-, 19- and 13-years older than him.




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