Why do many older women get pregnant?

As long as a woman of childbearing potential is pregnant, she has the possibility of pregnancy.

In our common understanding, everyone thinks that women will slowly enter menopause after the age of 40, and by the age of 50, most women will begin to enter menopause. Later, around the age of 50-60, most women lose the ability to have children.

However, this is not entirely accurate, because a small number of women are still fertile after the age of 60.

When people reach old age, they often neglect contraception. They feel that the possibility of getting pregnant at such an old age is almost zero, so they will not deliberately use contraception. The results are often unexpected. Perhaps due to such negligence, some women after the age of 60 will still become pregnant. Pregnancy among older women can actually be seen on the Internet.

For example, in October 2019, a 67-year-old high-risk mother in Zaozhuang, Shandong Province gave birth to a baby girl.

At the age of 67, she still conceived naturally and gave birth to a healthy baby. This incident caused a great sensation on the Internet at the time. Some people say that the old couple are good-looking and responsible; of course, some people accuse them of being too selfish and not considering their other adult children.

For an elderly couple who had a son and a daughter more than 30 years ago, and their granddaughters are already adults, they actually face many problems when giving birth to a daughter. However, at this age and having a little daughter, the old couple always believed that this was destiny, and named their daughter "Godsend", claiming that they must raise her well. Why do pregnant elderly people insist on giving birth to children?

Although the bodies of older people still have the possibility of pregnancy, they are actually not suitable for giving birth to life. Because pregnant women over the age of 40 are at higher risk of various complications during pregnancy, this is why the optimal age for childbearing is said.

For example, this 67-year-old pregnant woman from Zaozhuang, Shandong Province had relatively large fluctuations in blood sugar and blood pressure during pregnancy, and her heart function was Class II, and she also developed symptoms of preeclampsia and poor liver and kidney function. The hospital once recommended terminating the pregnancy, but she refused to do so.

Even for her, the hospital set up a special team to monitor her around the clock. Moreover, she had been hospitalized in the high-risk obstetrics department of the hospital, awaiting delivery, and was sent to the ICU with the newborn for further observation after delivery.

So, why do these elderly people insist on giving birth to children regardless of their own safety?

1. The lonely old age of the elderly needs a new life to bring vitality.

Why do we advocate that young people should often go home to accompany their parents? It's because the elderly are too lonely.

My children were all around me when I was young, but as I got older, they all left.

Children who have their own lives will pay less attention to their parents. Parents, because they are lonely and have nowhere to talk, will feel that the whole family is lifeless.

If a fresh new life appears at this time, it will be a dawn for the elderly parents. Regardless of whether this child is a grandchild or a son or daughter, as long as it can bring a different change to their boring lives, they will be delighted.

2. The older you get, the more respectful you are to life.

When you are young, you may not feel much about a new life, but the older you get, the more you are in awe of new life.

Being able to give birth to a child at such an age is simply a miracle for these elderly people.

It is difficult for people to accept the fact that they are old, and having children can help them prove that they are not old.

And the older people get, the more stubborn they become, and the things they believe will never change. Is pregnancy a good thing for older people?

Although some elderly people do still have the ability to have children, is it really a good thing for them to have children?

I personally don’t think it’s a good thing.

First, the elderly are not as healthy as young people and may face great risks in having children.

As I said just now, the probability of various pregnancy complications will be much higher after you are over 40 years old. If you are over 60 years old before getting pregnant, the first thing to consider is whether your body can still bear it.

It was not that the doctor for this 67-year-old pregnant woman in Shandong had not suggested that she terminate her pregnancy, but she refused to listen. That is to say, she was lucky. Even with so many complications, she was still able to turn things around. The process was really scary.

In fact, let’s look at this matter from other aspects. If the woman has such serious complications, she is unwilling to let it go. So, as a man, should we not care about it? He knew clearly that his wife was already sick due to pregnancy and was in danger at any time. As a husband, how can I bear to let my wife suffer this at nearly 70 years old?

Secondly, raising children after having children is a big problem, and the elderly generally lack energy.

Children cannot grow up by themselves. Even if you have a lot of retirement salary, you don’t have to worry about money. However, the energy involved in raising children is something that most elderly people cannot bear.

Especially when children are young, they are inseparable from people all the time.

Does a person who has entered old age have so much energy to raise children?

Third, people say it is scary that having children at an old age will have an impact on both yourself and your existing children.

Generally, if you give birth over 50 years old, you will be criticized, let alone over 60 years old.

And it’s okay if you never have children. The key is that you already have children, and these children are old enough to have children. In this case, having another child would be too embarrassing for the children. .

The main reason why the children of this old couple in Shandong are angry and want to ignore them is that their granddaughters have grown up. How can any child feel comfortable when such a sister who is about the same age as his granddaughter suddenly comes here?

Conclusion:

Although some elderly people have good physical fitness, there is still the possibility of pregnancy.

However, it is still recommended that they should not have children easily.

After all, giving birth to a child may face too many problems. As an elderly person, you still have to consider various issues comprehensively.