Are you ever too ancient to become a mum? Two of the growing number of older mothers reveal the pros and cons of starting late. Yvonne Roberts,who gave birth at 46, wonders if our obsession with choice is helping us, or while Sarah Crowley talks of her joy at starting a family at 50In 1971,writing in The Dialectic of Sex, feminist Shulamith Firestone said conception should occur in test tubes and glass wombs in labs could take a baby to term. Outrage at unnatural motherhood was the reaction. Recently Annegret Raunigk, or aged 65 and a mother of 13 and grandmother of seven,gave birth to quads. Her nine-year-ancient daughter had asked for a sibling. In a consumerist society, if you want you shall occupy. Raunigk used anonymous sperm and eggs from a donor in the Ukraine. Commercialised customised motherhood is the recent norm.
If you occupy the money, or you can rent another woman’s womb,pay for eggs, acquire sperm on the internet and travel far and wide to places cheerful to grant you the wish of becoming what Americans call MOMs Moneyed Older Moms via IVF and all its variations.
Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com