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Title: 60-year-old N.J. woman delivers twins
Post by: Dos Equis on May 23, 2007, 06:53:24 PM
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60-year-old N.J. woman delivers twins
Believed to be the oldest mom in the U.S. to give birth to multiples

Updated: 3:47 a.m. HT May 23, 2007
TRENTON, N.J. - A 60-year-old woman became a mother, twice over, when she delivered a pair of boys Tuesday.

Frieda Birnbaum gave birth to “Baby A” at 12:44 p.m. and “Baby B” a minute later by Caesarean section at Hackensack University Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Nancy Radwin said. The twins each weighed 4 pounds, 11 ounces, she said.

“The mom is in recovery, and she and the babies are doing really well,” Radwin said, declining a request to speak with the mother.

Hospital officials believe Birnbaum may be the oldest woman to give birth to twins in the United States, Radwin said.

Birnbaum, a psychologist from Saddle River, underwent in-vitro fertilization last year in Cape Town, South Africa, at a center that specializes in older women. She and her husband, Ken, a New York attorney, have been married for 38 years and have three other children — sons ages 6 and 33 and a daughter, 29.

Birnbaum told Fox News she wanted her younger son to have siblings closer to his age and wanted to remove some of the stigma attached to older women giving birth.

Coincidentally, Tuesday was the birthday of twins born one year ago to a 59-year-old woman — also to a New Jersey woman. Lauren Cohen gave birth to Gregory and Giselle on May 22, 2006, at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia.

Cohen said Birnbaum contacted her after seeing her name in a magazine and that the two quickly became friends.

“We talked about babies; I suggested things that would be helpful when you try to feed two babies simultaneously,” Cohen said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18817248/from/ET/
Title: Re: 60-year-old N.J. woman delivers twins
Post by: Al-Gebra on May 23, 2007, 08:11:26 PM

this is just wrong.  >:(
Title: Re: 60-year-old N.J. woman delivers twins
Post by: Dos Equis on May 24, 2007, 10:54:49 AM
this is just wrong.  >:(

Do you think there is a double standard for men and women?  Lots of men father babies when they're in their 50s, 60s or older (Larry King for example).  Doesn't seem to make the news much.
Title: Re: 60-year-old N.J. woman delivers twins
Post by: Al-Gebra on May 24, 2007, 10:58:54 AM
Do you think there is a double standard for men and women?  Lots of men father babies when they're in their 50s, 60s or older (Larry King for example).  Doesn't seem to make the news much.

Have you seen a pic of Larry King and his wife? that's pretty wrong looking too . . . imho, there's a time for everything.
Title: Re: 60-year-old N.J. woman delivers twins
Post by: trab on May 24, 2007, 02:27:30 PM
Have you seen a pic of Larry King and his wife? that's pretty wrong looking too . . . imho, there's a time for everything.

What? Larry got himself a pretty young wife? Good for him. Nothing wrong with that, in fact it's not that uncommon in most parts of the world. More than ONE wife too! American standards about such matters are not very important to the vast majority of people on Earth.