Singapore - A 55-year-old woman gave birth to a baby in 2022 - making her Singapore's oldest mother to a newborn in that year. In fact, she is only the third woman aged 55 and older to have given birth and registered the birth of a baby since the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) started publishing the annual report on...
Singapore - A 55-year-old woman gave birth to a baby in 2022 - making her Singapore's oldest mother to a newborn in that year.
The trend comes as a very rare, but growing number of women aged 50 and older are giving birth - stretching the limits and norms of motherhood. The most famous of these late-in-life mothers would probably be veteran actress and Getai singer Liu Ling Ling, who gave birth at the age of 50 in 2013. She had said in interviews that her son was conceived through in-vitro fertilisation .
He said these patients had their IVF procedure performed overseas, in countries like Malaysia and the United States. It was only in 2020 that the age limit of 45 for IVF treatment in Singapore was lifted. News of celebrities, such as singer Janet Jackson and supermodel Naomi Campbell, having children in their 50s have re-kindled hope of motherhood for some older women.
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