Oldest pregnant patient you have seen?

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What is the oldest and youngest new mother you have seen? How old do you feel is too old to have children? Just curious after reading about the woman who just delivered at 60 years of age.

Specializes in nursery, L and D.

Oldest 48, donor eggs with IVF. Youngest that I personally cared for 13........did have a 10y/o at one time at my hospital, don't know the story behind that one.

The highest was G15 P 13 (having # 14), she didn't have custody of any of the kids and she was 28y/o.....(sigh)

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P14 at 28 years old??????

Okay, we all know what she did in her waking hours......

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Specializes in Oncology/Haemetology/HIV.

Youngest was 12.

As a note, my cousin (who is Mormon) had her 14th child (miscarried 6 times) at 45. Her eldest daughter has children older than her youngest sister.

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I will never forget a documentary I saw once at a hospital in Texas, in OB. A little Mexican woman in her late 20's was about to deliver her 12th child by section and she was considered high risk because of polygravidism. "Tired uterus" was the term the docs used, they were afraid she might bleed out because the uterus wouldn't be able to clamp down.

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Specializes in ER, Occupational Health, Cardiology.
The oldest we have had was 51, and ironically we had 2 patients that same week that were 35 getting their hysterectomies. the youngest is 11, and it is crazy to see how proud these babies partents are when they have babies. I had one little girl she was 22, but she was having her 5th baby, it was her 8th pregnancy, and all her mother could talk about was how proud she was because she too, gave birth to number 5 at 22, years of age.

...and in 22 more years, the one that is so proud that her daughter had her 5th baby by age 22 will be great-grandma to five more! This kind of thinking (or NOT) will be endless, and I can only imagine who will be ultimately footing the bill!:uhoh3:

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Specializes in Going to Peds!.

OMG! 10yo?!?! I guess I really need to talk to my daughter. (She's 6.5.)

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I am not generally an abortion advocate, but, I'm sorry, anyone who allowed a 10 yo baby to give birth ought to be shot!!:angryfire I certainly hope DHS got involved in that case!

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Specializes in Peds, ER/Trauma.

Some of these people just need to STOP breeding!

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Oldest 48, had a pregnant dtr that was due about the same time.

Youngest.........10. Hugging her little stuffed animal.

jeez oh man! 10 years old...thats a mind-blower to me...sad too for those involved

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Specializes in OB, M/S, HH, Medical Imaging RN.

An 11 year old girl whose "mama" told her to get pregnant like her sisters to collect the welfare check. She said "I ain't doin this again, I don't care what mama says".

We had a mother and daughter who delivered on the same day.

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How sad for some of these young girls. I'm not a nurse yet, but I used to teach school, and my first year teaching, I had a student who got pregnant by her mom's boyfriend. She was in the 7th grade. The boyfriend was arrested, but he got out on bail the same day thanks to the girl's mom. Social services told the mom that if she let the guy near her kids again (she had 4) that they would take her kids from her. She told them to go ahead and come get them because the wasn't going to give up her boyfriend just because her daughter was a whore. My student miscarried. She was such a sweet girl too. Too sweet for a mother like that. Fortunately, she was able to get out of the situation and go live with her grandparents who loved her and were "normal."

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Specializes in Peds, ER/Trauma.
My student miscarried.

It may sound horrible, but in SOME situations, I think miscarriages happen for a reason....

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