Does anyone know someone personally who conceived and gave birth naturally after age 46?
My relative got pregnant naturally at 47 for the first time and sadly lost the baby
I've never posted here before but have been keeping up with the thread to see what peoples thoughts were and this question I couldn't not answer because honestly it can and does happen (but how frequently I don't know)
Without going into my life history when I was in my teens my mum starting going through what we would now call peri menopause she was around 46 at the time and this might sound weird to some but I always used to mark on the kitchen calendar when I came on and so did mum, over the next twelve months it became clear that she had become very irregular and it was getting her down her a lot she would look at my 'red dots' on the calendar and say she missed being like that and hated not knowing when she would 'see' again
Fast forward roughly another year mum was now 48 feeling shitter than ever wondering when it was all going to end, goes to see the new lady doctor at our practice for a well women check and finds out she 10 weeks pregnant !
Everything else to be honest is a bit of blur I was fresh out of high school but suffice to say it was a shock for her and dad and definitly not planned (she sort of became the talk of town

this was 21 years ago) long story short we all just cracked on mum had a healthy pregnancy nothing out of the ordinary if memory serves at the end she just had a little high blood pressure and got v. big, she had C section and my little brother was born weighting 8lb 3oz
It honestly wasn't that much of an issue truth be told.
The only tragedy we faced was that sadly my dad passed away suddenly aged just 63 and my brother was only nine and still in junior school .
So to me on a personal level it's not so much can you it's more should you be ?