Posted on 02/18/2006 12:20:36 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
REDDING – A 62-year-old woman gave birth Friday to a healthy 6-pound, 9-ounce baby boy, becoming one of the oldest women in the world to successfully bear a child. The newborn is the 12th child of Janise Wulf, who's also a grandmother of 20 and great-grandmother of three.
Wulf and her third husband, Scott, 48, named the red-haired boy, Adam Charles Wulf. He follows just 3½ years behind his older brother, Ian.
“I hate to raise one alone, without a sibling,” said Wulf, who was impregnated both times through in vitro fertilization.
Wulf has given birth to a total of 12 children, although one son died in his 30s and another died at birth with undeveloped lungs. Of her 10 living children, the oldest is 40.
“I think she's amazing. She's got more than enough love to give,” Myers said.
Wulf is used to defying the odds. Blind since birth, she was a synchronized swimmer in high school, worked as a piano and organ saleswoman and developed a passion for cooking.
Wulf said Friday that she considers her late-in-life pregnancy a groundbreaking act for older women.
“Age is a number. You're as old as you feel,” she said. “Every time you revolutionize something or you do something different, there's going to be naysayers.”
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You people know a lot more about in vitro than I do.
Maybe I’d better google it. So there are always more eggs than develop or what?
Did you just have a baby at 39?
Curious because my daughter is 39 and a newlywed and she wants a baby.
Some of us old people long for the energy to play golf ... or even bingo.
“And this grand old lady is only making up for the gays and the “child-free” couples (heterosexual gays) who don’t have any kids at all. “
As well as making up for all the anchor babies and illegal ones already here.
I had my 8th baby when I was 39 (and a half, if it matters :-). He’s almost 1-1/2 now, and I’ll be 41 next week.
I feel very fortunate to have all my children, and although I need more food and sleep than I did at 24, there are advantages to being an older mother, as well. I’m willing to have more children, if it happens, although we don’t intend to have another because of our other family responsibilities, including aging parents.
Best wishes to your daughter!
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A different article, on CBS News online, said Mrs. Wulf was a piano and organ saleswoman.
A different article, on CBS News online, said Mrs. Wulf was a piano and organ saleswoman.
Knowing full well that there will be many criticisms here of Mrs. Wulf, I say good for her! She sounds like a very capable, caring woman.
I know one woman who had 23. Hubby’s grandmother had 19. Whew.
I guess I’d have to shoot myself.
A 17 year old kid I knew at Christian camp years ago had a father who was 72. He felt more like his 40 year old brother was his father and his dad was more like a grandfather. Interesting.
You are right! Many issues come into play with this. Many times there are more than one implanted in hopes that one of the several will take hold. Sometimes more than one takes hold and the parents or doctor then have to decide which one(s) to "abort"! WHOA! Many facets to the issue. I am not fully prepared to say I have thought it all through enough...I have friends with fertility issues who would make great parents, and desparately want children. I have seen the pain and agony they have gone through. I struggle with this one!!
I went through secondary infertility myself and checked into the drugs. When I saw the statistics for the birth defects, I didn't see them as "low" in percentages and chances....instead, I saw that I had one child already. With the birth defects, I saw those were lives that they were making a number....each of those numbers were families that were having to deal with a baby with a major birth defect. I was fortunate/ blessed that I had one child already. I was sad for the hopes that I thought would be lost, but turned it over to God and walked away from the medical intervention with drugs. God blessed us with 2 more living children a few years later.
I struggle with this one, I really do! If they are going the IVF way, I believe that all that implant and take should be kept. I am pro-life! (understatement for an activist) But you are right, Spirit, it is easy to answer quickly. Where should the line be drawn? What does scripture say? How does it translate? What about my friends who want desparately to have children? (rhetorical) Thought provoking, Spirit and LJ. This will take some wrestling, prayer, and digging in the Word.
Bless your heart, it only took seventeen months to send me a reply. LOL!
no kids on the horizon is there? </giggle>
What time do ya hit the road?
At least he finally remembered!
Society, the IVF industry, and the law, all see the newly-begotten as mere material, as property. The can be legally brought into being, bought, sold, given away, donated to "science," disposed of with all the funeral honors of a piece of sh--.
More and more people see that that's a disgraceful way to treat your begotten children.
It's indignity.
God never authorized any way to bring babies into this world, except the one-flesh union of husband and wife. I think artificial insemination, IVF and the other new reproductive technologies are OK for livestock breeders. But I think using veterinary methods for human beings inevitably degrades our children and makes them akin to mere biological "material."
I wonder if she has money!!
Age in males and females deteoriate the telemeres at the end of chromosomes and this results in a short life-span (and, other problems) for the off-spring of ‘aged’ parents.
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