A grandma has given birth to triplets !!

Makes me tired just thinking about it. Selfish woman.

Having 3 teenagers when you're 70 would be very hard going if you survive that long !!

Technically she's young enough for this to have happened naturally as menopause is so variable. Wouldn't be something I'd choose, but wouldn't judge her either. What really irritates me is that men of this age who father children rarely get criticised.

I wouldn't criticise, it's her choice. I do feel sorry for the babies when they're older and I take your point littlefierce regarding older fathers.
I do however think she's mad

Dad is 40. With that in mind, I suppose it is up to her.

I had a baby at 42.

Seemed a good idea (and it was really, because I adore my little girl, she is gorgeous and very rewarding!)

However, having a child who is barely 6 when you are approaching 50 is no joke!! Thank god I have an elder daughter who at 28 is more able to run around after her than me, and helps me a lot (I hope to repay the favour when she has children........although I think colouring books and a bit of light baking might suit me better then!)

How a woman in her fifties would cope with triplets is beyond me!!!!

My friend told me last night her D who was 45 last month is pregnant(planned) my friend is very anxious and torn between happy and not keen.

Shudder. No thanks

So, her and the partner have good lucrative jobs? And how long does she think she can work and look after three babies? Oh yes! She will put them in daycare at taxpayers' expense. The IVF debt will be paid off in a couple of years? How long before she's on benefits?

Are they the current husband's children? If not, how long will a forty year old stick around with an aging mother of three babies?

Rubbish all round. Silly woman.

45 is ok annsixty. (Nature says yes)

I hope that when she is 75 or 80 she doesn't expect her 20-25 year olds to rally around after her. Their lives will be just beginning!

I had Minibags, all naturally, when I was six weeks short of 45. It's been great!

In the past, I expect quite a few twenty-five year olds had to rally round and look after parents. My grandmother had to support her mother and her younger sister from the age of nineteen. She had nine older siblings but they all had kids of their own to support on low wages by then.

Our neighbour here, already a Gran, had a baby at 55, and another at 57. The father is the same age.
Turned out very sadly as they split up, she got custody. No idea how they're all doing now as they went back to the UK.

Not sure how putting them in childcare would be at the taxpayer's expense jinglbellsfrocks, surely it would be at her expense? I would definitely be putting them in childcare to get some peace and quiet at work!

I haven't read the full story but I thought with multiple births you get extra help. I know our local further education college which trained nursery nurses used to offer help free of charge . Don't know whether they still do. Depends how fit you are. As someone said plenty of men fathering children at that age and beyond and people don't condemn(though they should)

Where is this free childcare then ? my dils pay £50 a day nursery fees and they are not big earners , 2 days looked after by GPs or they would not be able to afford to work ! Anyway it is not all about money and benefits , more about exhaustion I would think at that age . Good luck to her I say>
I think you do get a bit of help with multiples but it is not much and not for long . ( unless the gov have stopped that too)

Janet Jackson has announced that she is expecting at 49. She is married to a billionaire though!

I recently heard of someone who was expecting triplets aged 52 or 3. It was natural, no IVF, and she had never been pregnant before.

She will be 64 when they are the same age as my GS! Three of them!! Well, jolly good luck with that!

There might not be any statutory financial help available, but I think this mother will have to be bailed out sooner or later. And f77ms, money will be the important factor here.

Perhaps IVF should not be made available for women over a certain age - although there is probably some law or other about people's rights regarding that. Having a child naturally at a later age is another thing altogether, it is what nature planned.

Rolling Stones Ronnie Wood at 68 is becoming a father again with his much younger wife at 37 she's expecting twins so how old is to old for a man ??
And what's it going to be like for those twins when In their teenage years their dad gets mistaken for their great grandfather!