Celebrities get pregnant over 4. But don't assume you can too. In 2. 01. 4, 4. 9 year old actress Laura Linney welcomed a baby son, her first child with husband Mark Schauer. The couple married in 2.
- Another day, another celebrity in her late forties giving birth. This time, it's a warm congratulations to 49-year-old actress Laura Linney who has welcomed a baby son, her first child with husband Mark Schauer. The couple married in 2009 when Linney was 45.
- Going au natural is the route that these celebrity moms decided to opt for. Aishwarya Rai bravely chose to give birth naturally at the age of 38. By Team iDiva 49.2k.
- Senior doctors are increasingly concerned by the surge in the number of older women giving birth. 49, turned away.
Linney was 4. 5. Falling pregnant in your forties – let alone 4. Except in Hollywood where it seems to happen with extraordinary regularity. A few months ago, Halle Berry gave birth for the second time aged 4.
List of people with the most children This article. All eyes had been on the 49-year-old to win an award for her role.
Nahla. Kelly Preston had her third child in 2. Susan Sarandon had a baby at 4. Beverly D’Angelo had twins (with 6.
Al Pacino) at 4. 9. Holly Hunter also gave birth to twins at the age of 4. Geena Davis had her twins at 4. Jane Seymour had twins at 4. Marcia Gay Harden and Desperate Housewives’ Marcia Cross both had twins at 4. Cheryl Tiegs had twins at 5.
The unspoken question of course is how. How did these women become pregnant so late in life when statistically, the chances of conceiving are miniscule if not zero?
According to doctors, pretty much the only way to become pregnant in your mid to late forties is by using donor eggs. Understandably, celebrities rarely announce the way they became pregnant unless a surrogate was involved (like with Nicole Kidman and Sarah Jessica Parker). When you’re famous, it’s impossible to hide the fact you weren’t pregnant.
But something that is possible – and easy – to hide is HOW you became pregnant. So how do so many famous women become mothers in their mid to late forties and even into their fifties? Donor eggs.“Celebrities may be different from you and me, they may be better looking but one thing they’re not is more fertile” a Beverly Hills doctor told US Elle magazine. This doctor has helped several middle- aged stars have babies with donor eggs and describes it as the last taboo of infertility.
Famous or not, the most common cause of infertility in women is age. Too many of us simply leave it too late – for a whole bunch of reasons. Sadly, after a certain point there’s nothing you can do to increase the number of eggs you have or extend their expiry date.“The chance of an egg resulting in pregnancy declines as a woman ages,” explains Brisbane obstetrician/gynaecologist Dr Brad Robinson. So an old egg that is finally released at the age of 4. I like to tell my patients – it may well come out on a zimmer frame. This is evidenced by the fact the miscarriage rate climbs as we age from 1.
The other problem for older mums is that the risk of chromosomal abnormalities also rises exponentially as women age. For example Downs Syndrome – a woman aged 2. A woman aged 4. 3 has a risk of 1 in 4. One of my friends had IVF a few years ago when she was 3.
I felt like saying ? Then I picked up a magazine to see Geena Davis pregnant at 4.
I suddenly understood.”This is a frustration that doctors on the frontline of infertility face every day. These celebrity . I’m yet to see a patient who had viable eggs in her mid forties. Even with IVF, we’ve never had a pregnancy after age 4. To overcome this, some older women are electing to use donor eggs, confirms Dr Robinson. Donors are typically aged in their 2.
A woman aged 4. 6 using her own eggs in IVF has at best a less than 3 percent chance of an embryo transfer actually resulting in a live birth. But if she is using donated eggs – from a younger woman – the live birth rate per episode is over 4. My sister- in- law Nicky spent a long time trying to conceive.
She was 4. 0 when she first began the process but despite years of IVF, it wasn’t until she went to Greece in 2. With my adorable nephews who are now 1. She won’t mind me telling you this. She’s always been open and candid about her journey to become a mother, writing about it here on Mamamia several times and letting me interview her in this video series I’m doing with Nissan about Modern Families. And this is where obstetricians, gynaecologists and fertility specialists can become enormously frustrated. Every time it’s announced that a celebrity like Laura Linney has had a baby around the age most women’s bodies are preparing for menopause, it sparks a wave of publicity and a tsunami of hope and delusion among the wider population who believe they too can conceive at 4.
Look, no woman is obliged to tell the world how she got pregnant, famous or not. Infertility is an intensely difficult, often painful and always personal experience.
But to safeguard our own fertility and our self- esteem, we need to start filtering these “miracle” celebrity pregnancies through a reality- check. Which brings us back to Hollywood’s donor egg explosion. Dr Brad Robinson says he would welcome more honesty from celebrities about the realities of falling pregnant . Even in Hollywood. So while every woman has the right to complete privacy around her fertility, remember that.
This Celebrity Just Gave Birth at 4. But Don't Assume You Can Too.
Another day, another celebrity in her late forties giving birth. This time, it's a warm congratulations to 4. Laura Linney who has welcomed a baby son, her first child with husband Mark Schauer. The couple married in 2. Linney was 4. 5. Falling pregnant in your forties - let alone 4. Except in Hollywood where it seems to happen with extraordinary regularity. A few months ago, Halle Berry gave birth for the second time aged 4.
Her daughter, Nahla is five. Kelly Preston had her third child in 2. Susan Sarandon had a baby at 4. Beverly D'Angelo had twins (with 6. Al Pacino) at 4. 9. Holly Hunter also gave birth to twins at the age of 4. Geena Davis had her twins at 4.
Jane Seymour had twins at 4. Marcia Gay Harden and Desperate Housewives' Marcia Cross both had twins at 4. Cheryl Tiegs had twins at 5. The unspoken question of course is how.
How did these women become pregnant so late in life when statistically, the chances of conceiving are minuscule if not zero? According to doctors, pretty much the only way to become pregnant in your mid to late forties is by using donor eggs. Understandably, celebrities rarely announce the way they became pregnant unless a surrogate was involved (like with Nicole Kidman and Sarah Jessica Parker). When you're famous, it's impossible to hide the fact you weren't pregnant. But something that is possible - and easy - to hide is HOW you became pregnant.
So how do so many famous women become mothers in their mid to late forties and even into their fifties? Donor eggs. This doctor has helped several middle- aged stars have babies with donor eggs and describes it as the last taboo of infertility. Famous or not, the most common cause of infertility in women is age. Too many of us simply leave it too late - for a whole bunch of reasons. Sadly, after a certain point there's nothing you can do to increase the number of eggs you have or extend their expiry date. So an old egg that is finally released at the age of 4.
I like to tell my patients - it may well come out on a zimmer frame. This is evidenced by the fact the miscarriage rate climbs as we age from 1.
The other problem for older mums is that the risk of chromosomal abnormalities also rises exponentially as women age. For example Downs Syndrome - a woman aged 2.
A woman aged 4. 3 has a risk of one in 4. I felt like saying 'go home, save yourself the heartbreak.' How could they believe anything would make them pregnant at that age? Then I picked up a magazine to see Geena Davis pregnant at 4. I suddenly understood. These celebrity 'miracle pregnancies' give women ridiculous expectations. I'm yet to see a patient who had viable eggs in her mid forties. Even with IVF, we've never had a pregnancy after age 4.
Donors are typically aged in their 2. A woman aged 4. 6 using her own eggs in IVF has at best a less than 3% chance of an embryo transfer actually resulting in a live birth. But if she is using donated eggs - from a younger woman - the live birth rate per episode is over 4. She was 4. 0 when she first began the process but despite years of IVF, it wasn't until she went to Greece in 2. With my adorable nephews who are now 1. She won't mind me telling you this.
She's always been open and candid about her journey to become a mother, writing about it on Mamamia. And this is where obstetricians, gynaecologists and fertility specialists can become enormously frustrated. Every time it's announced that a celebrity like Laura Linney has had a baby around the age most women's bodies are preparing for menopause, it sparks a wave of publicity and a tsunami of hope and delusion among the wider population who believe they too can conceive at 4. Look, no woman is obliged to tell the world how she got pregnant, famous or not. Infertility is an intensely difficult, often painful and always personal experience. But to safeguard our own fertility and our self- esteem, we need to start filtering these . Which brings us back to Hollywood's donor egg explosion.
Dr Brad Robinson says he would welcome more honesty from celebrities about the realities of falling pregnant 'naturally' in their late forties. Even in Hollywood. So while every woman has the right to complete privacy around her fertility, remember that 'miracle' might not quite mean what you think... This post first appeared on Mamamia.