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59-Year-Old Set to Give Birth to Twins
Thu Nov 11, 6:53 PM ET
By ELLIOTT MINOR, Associated Press Writer
SYLVESTER, Ga. - A 59-year-old great-grandmother is pregnant with twins and will deliver next month, three decades after she had her tubes tied. "They came untied," Frances Harris said Thursday.
The multiple birth Dec. 21 would break the purported record set this week by a 56-year-old New York City mother of twins.
Harris, of rural Sylvester, Ga., said she wasn't trying to get pregnant — and didn't realize she was — until she started gaining weight and went to see her doctor.
"A lot of things changed about me," she said. "I started craving grapes and apples, things I don't usually crave. By then I was four months pregnant."
When the doctor broke the news, "They had to sit me down. I couldn't even talk," she said.
The news was even more shocking considering Harris — the mother of five, grandmother of 14 and great-grandmother of six — had her tubes tied 33 years ago after the birth of her youngest child.
Harris had her first child when she was 15; 44 years will separate her first-born from the newborns. She was divorced years ago from the twins' father, 60-year-old Raymond Harris, a heavy equipment operator. She said they will remarry before the birth.
The oldest American believed to have given birth to twins is Aleta St. James, a single mother who turns 57 on Friday. She gave birth Tuesday by in-vitro fertilization at New York City's Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites) show 263 children were born to women between ages 50 and 54 in 2002. The oldest American to give birth is Arceli Keh, of California, who was 63 when she had a daughter in 1996.
Harris said some family members, concerned about health complications, had suggested she end the pregnancy.
"I couldn't live with myself," she said. "I pray we all three pull through. When they're so little, they're so beautiful. I think they are God's gift."
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Holy cow! But just how do you tubes become untied?
I don't know how but I heard that the odds are kinda low that you can actually get pregnant after they untied them. But I'm not sure.
BTW....DAMN that is old!!!
Anyone over 16 is old to you Duff!
I would be a pretty proud dad! I mean look, she was 59, her tubes were tied, and my two best swimmers still took home the gold!
That must mean I'm old...since I'm 21.
Well come on then....step it up a notch or two and start acting like it.
^^^Rack^^^ Solid GOLDI would be a pretty proud dad! I mean look, she was 59, her tubes were tied, and my two best swimmers still took home the gold!
Why? Just cause you tell me to?
If you make the picture bigger, she looks even older.BTW....DAMN that is old!!!
Forget it Duff. Take your pestulance and go. I'm tired of reasoning with you.
Actually I saw her on tv this morning...I got a good look.
I wonder if she realizes that if she lives long enough to see them graduate high school, she'll be 77. Actually, she'll probably be older than that, the chances of the children of a 59-year-old having birth defects must be pretty high ...
I would be a pretty proud dad! I mean look, she was 59, her tubes were tied, and my two best swimmers still took home the gold!
I dunno..59 years old...my goodness.
There's so many thoughts going through my mind about that I can't even get them out.
I believe all children are a gift too but she's gonna need so much help to keep up with them. If its hard on a young mother I can imagine how it might be on her. My twin sister and I were for my mother at 31
I wish her the best and hope the babies and everyone come out healthy and safe. I would have loved to be able to give birth to twins one day.
she's old, she's already had kids...she's probably a pro. i be the first kid is the toughest. i have no kids so i don't know... i have a dog and she is very demanding!
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