A Mother of 62 years of age who was born blind from birth has recently given birth, now don’t you find this quite chilling and a little bit wrong considering the circumstances?, Yeah I’m sure she’s given birth with all her heart after all you wouldn’t give birth to a child if you didn’t think you could handle it.

But just think about this, with every passing day she getting older which means her risk of death is greater, so by the time this kid is in high school he may or may not have a mother, and well he definitely wont have any grandparents that’s for sure! 🙁

SACRAMENTOA great-grandmother from Redding is a mother again — at age 62.

Janise Wulf, impregnated through in vitro fertilization, gave birth to her 12th child Friday, making her one of the oldest women ever to deliver a baby.

Adam Charles Wulf arrived at Mercy Medical Center in Redding via Caesarean section, weighing in at a healthy 6 pounds, 9 ounces.

“The doctor described the delivery as excellent,” said Carolyn Helfenstein, a hospital spokeswoman. Helfenstein said Wulf was recuperating in her hospital room and unavailable for comment.

Wulf, a former piano and organ saleswoman who has been blind since birth, has 20 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Only a handful of women have delivered a child at an older age.

A Romanian woman — Adriana Iliescu — was 66 years and 230 days old when she gave birth to a girl Jan. 16, 2005. Iliescu used hormone therapy to delay menopause for nine years, according to news reports.

The Guinness Book of World Records published in 2005 lists two 63-year-old mothers as the oldest women who gave birth: Rosanna Della Corte of Italy in 1994 and Acheli Keh of California in 1996.

Wulf said in an interview last week with the Redding Record Searchlight that she considered her pregnancy a groundbreaking act for older women.

“Every time you revolutionize something or you do something different, there’s going to be naysayers,” she told the paper. “Age is a number. You’re as old as you feel.”

Wulf acknowledged the health risks and parenting challenges involved with such late-in-life motherhood but told the paper that being an older parent has advantages.

“I think I’m a much better parent now than when I was younger,” said Wulf, whose husband, Scott, is 48. “I’m not working, I’m not under stress. I’m just ready to enjoy them.”

She said that Adam Charles — delivered 31/2 years after her last boy, Ian — would be her last child

Via: ContraCostaTimes