A WOMAN who at 61 is expecting not a pension cheque but her first baby has stirred some controversy in Brazil over just when it might be too late to give birth.
The woman in question, whose case has appeared in local media, asked that her name be withheld. She is post-menopausal, married to a man who is 38, and became pregnant with a donor egg. She is due in November.
"I had already gone through menopause ... My husband wanted to be a father. I wanted to be a mother too. I am in great health ... and I have undergone a very thorough medical clearance," she told O Globo newspaper.
She said she did not plan to tell her future daughter about her having used a donor egg to become pregnant.
It is not Brazil's first late-in-life pregnancy. As recently as September 9, a 52-year-old woman whose husband is 88 became a first-time mother of twins.
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