Julienne Despeignes wife Blouin, a French woman, gave birth to her last daughter, Magdelaine, on June 11, 1757, at the age of 52 years and almost 4 months, after conceiving naturally with her husband Pierre. Mrs. Blouin had already had 12 children.

The Royal Cornwall Gazette reported the birth of twins on December 24, 1818, to Mrs George Saunders, wife of a London shoemaker, in her 59th year of age. Her last previous child had been born 35 years before that.

Mrs. Fred. J. Turley gave birth to her sixth child on January 29, 1949, at the age of 59. Their other children are dead and she termed the birth "An answer to a prayer."

Ruth Alice Kistler gave birth to a daughter in Los Angeles, California, on October 18, 1956, at the age of 57. The birth predated the advent of in vitro fertilization making Kistler one of the oldest women known to have conceived naturally.

Anna Martin gave birth to a daughter by Caesarean section on November 24, 1972, at the age of 57. She already had six children.

Irina gave birth to her only son at the age of 51 in 1988, after being told by doctors at the age of 25 that she was unable to have children due to an accident.

Cecilia Tuaileva gave birth to a son on January 16, 1988, at the age of 61. She used IVF with oocytes donation fertilized by her husband's sperm.

Edith Jones gave birth to her granddaughter in 1991 at the age of 51, acting as a surrogate mother for her daughter Suzanne Langston, who was born without a womb.

Liliana Cantadori gave birth to a son on July 27, 1992, at the age of 61. She used IVF with oocytes donation fertilized by her husband's sperm.

Mary Shearing, a 53-year-old Californian woman, gave birth to twin girls on November 10, 1992, after becoming pregnant with the help of medical technology in New York City. She had married a man 21 years younger 7 years earlier.

Geraldine Wesolowski of New York City gave birth to her own grandson Matthew on December 28, 1992, at the age of 53, after IVF treatment, acting as a gestational surrogate for her son and his wife, who underwent hysterectomy at age 21. It was believed that Geraldine Wesolowski was then the oldest woman in the United States to give birth through IVF.

Jennifer F. gave birth to twin boys in a London hospital on December 25, 1993, at the age of 59, after undergoing IVF treatment in Rome, Italy. The oocytes from an Italian 22-year-old donor and the sperm of Jennifer's 45-year-old husband were used.

Rosanna Della Corte gave birth to a son on July 18, 1994, at the age of 62. After their first son was killed in 1991, Rosanna Della Corte and her husband decided to attempt to have a second child. With Dr. Antinori's help, the Della Cortes conceived through IVF with oocytes donation and Mauro's sperm.

Emilia Bacco gave birth to twin boys in 1995 after IVF treatment with oocytes donation fertilized by her husband's sperm.

Haristoula Karioti gave birth to twin sons at the age of 60 after IVF treatment. She was pregnant with triplets, but the doctors later decided to reduce the number of fetuses by one.

Natalya Surkova became the oldest mother in Russia after giving birth to her daughter on March 14, 1996, at the age of 57. She became pregnant after hormonal treatment, having been established in premenopausal.

Judy Bershak of Los Angeles, California, gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Sarah, at the age of 50 after undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment with oocyte donation. She had married at 44 and pursued IVF after failing to conceive naturally or adopt.

Arceli Keh gave birth to a daughter on November 7, 1996, at the age of 63. She and her husband had been married for 16 years when they decided to try to have a child. In order to gain admission to a fertility program that had an upper age limit of 55, Kehs told doctors that she was 50.

Between 1997 and 1999, 539 births were reported in the United States among mothers over age 50, which equates to four per 100,000 births. Of these, 194 births were to mothers over 55.

Dawn Brooke from Guernsey conceived a son naturally at the age of 59 in 1997, making her the oldest verified mother to conceive naturally, according to Guinness World Records as of January 26, 2017.

Cheryl Fillippini of Lompoc, California, gave birth to quadruplets—three girls (Rebekah, Amanda, and Sydney) and a boy (Robert)—via Caesarean section in Santa Barbara at the age of 50 after IVF treatment. Fillippini and her husband, who had 10 children from previous marriages, wanted to have a child together.

Adrienne Barbeau, an American actress, gave birth to twin sons, Walker Steven and William Dalton, on March 17, 1997, at the age of 51. After marrying Billy Van Zandt in 1992, she tried IVF unsuccessfully but later became pregnant naturally.

Dawn Brooke gave birth to a son by Caesarian section on August 20, 1997, at the age of 59. She became pregnant unexpectedly and is the oldest mother currently known to have conceived naturally.

Lin Fu-mei gave birth to twin daughters in 1998.

Merryl Fudel gave birth to quadruplets on April 18, 1998, at the age of 55 after IVF treatment. She is believed to be the oldest woman who gave birth to quadruplets.

Judith Cates gave birth to twin girls on December 12, 1998, at the age of 57 after IVF treatment. She and her husband are often mistaken for grandparents.

Harriet Stole gave birth to a son in April 1999 at age 66 after agreeing to be a surrogate mother for her infertile daughter in-law. Lucy and her husband had an egg fertilized and later implanted into the womb of Harriet.

Helen Morris was 52 when she gave birth to her daughter Francesca Scorsese in November 1999.

Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former U.S. Senator John Edwards, gave birth to son Jack in 2000 at the age of 51. The couple decided to have more children after the death of their 16-year-old son in a car accident in 1996. Some fertility experts believe she used a donor's oocytes.

Galina Shevchenko gave birth to twin sons in Russia in 2000 at the age of 54. Shevchenko and her husband decided to go through fertility treatment after the accidental death of their only son. It was the first successful case of IVF treatment of a post-menopausal woman in Russia.

Aracelia Garcia of Sunnyside, Washington, delivered all-female triplets by Caesarean section in early January 2000 at the age of 54, having naturally conceived without hormonal treatment.

Marilyn Nolen gave birth to twin sons on February 22, 2000, at the age of 55. She and her husband had been trying to have a child since 1988 and decided to go through IVF in 1998.

Vivien Morris gave birth to her granddaughter Maisie in 2001 at the age of 54, acting as a surrogate mother for her 29-year-old daughter, who was unable to carry a baby after cancer treatment.

Jeanine Salomone gave birth to a son on May 14, 2001, at the age of 62. It is against the law in France for post-menopausal women to receive IVF, so she went to the US for treatment. The case caused some ethical debate because the two eggs donated to Jeanine by a Californian woman were inseminated with sperm from Jeanine's brother.

Lynn Bezant gave birth to twins on May 24, 2001, at the age of 56 after receiving fertility treatment. Bezant, who already had three adult children, received donor eggs which had been fertilised with her husband's sperm.

"Pragna", gave birth to a son, by Caesarean section, in June 2001.

Morgan Zantua, of Tacoma, Washington, gave birth to her first child, daughter Auriel, on August 1, 2001, in Los Angeles, at the age of 51. She had remarried at 44, had a miscarriage, and then unexpectedly found out she was pregnant at 51.

Annie Leibovitz, an American portrait photographer, was 52 when she gave birth to her daughter Sarah in October 2001.

Janet Bosher gave birth to twins in September 2002 after IVF treatment with donated embryos. Her partner died four months after the twins' birth, leading to debate over the wisdom of a couple close to retirement age having fertility treatment.

Samira Ellis gave birth to twins in Sweden on March 8, 2003, at the age of 58.

Satyabhama Mahapatra gave birth to a son on April 9, 2003, at the age of 65. Mahapatra became pregnant through the help of IVF using an ovum donated by 26-year-old niece and spermatozoons from the husband of the latter. This was their first child after 50 years of marriage.

Lyudmila Belyavskaya, second wife of Russian actor Aleksandr Belyavsky, gave birth to her first child, daughter Alexandra, in Moscow, Russia, on August 28, 2003, at the age of 52 after a natural conception.

Papathiammal Subramaniam gave birth to a son on February 23, 2004, at the age of 64. He was conceived through IVF, with an ovum donated by a 30-year-old Papathiammal's cousin and the sperm of Papathiammal's husband.

Amma Bhavani gave birth to a son by Caesarean section on April 12, 2004, at the age of 62, after an IVF treatment with oocytes donation fertilized by sperm taken from the sperm bank.

Sandra Lennon gave birth to her son in October 2004 at the age of 59. It was her second child born after IVF treatment.

Aleta St. James gave birth to twins on November 9, 2004, just three days before her 57th birthday, after having undergone IVF treatment using donor eggs.

Tina Cade gave birth to her own triplet grandchildren in December 2004 at the age of 55, acting as a surrogate mother for her daughter and her husband. Her daughter suffers from endometriosis and had tried six attempts of IVF unsuccessfully.

Lauren Cohen gave birth to a daughter in December 2004 at the age of 58. She and her husband would still have twins together through IVF in May 2006.

In 2005, age restrictions on IVF in the United Kingdom were officially withdrawn.

Adriana Iliescu gave birth to a baby girl in 2005 at the age of 66. The child was conceived through IVF with donor eggs.

Rosie Swain naturally gave birth to twins on April 20, 2005, at the age of 57. She and her husband decided to go through IVF in order to give their last child, a 6-year-old son, a sibling close in age.

Annie Casserley gave birth to her own granddaughter Annie Trinity Hattersley in the United Kingdom in September 2005 at the age of 53, after choosing to act as a gestational surrogate for her 35-year-old daughter, who has a rare cancer-like condition.

Svetlana Glazyrina gave birth to her first child, a boy, on September 13, 2005, at the age of 59. She had been trying to have children since her marriage at age 44 and decided to go through IVF treatment after seven unsuccessful pregnancies.

Janise Wulf gave birth to a boy, her 12th child, on February 19, 2006, at the age of 62. The baby was delivered by Caesarean section and was conceived through in-vitro fertilization (IVF).

Lauren Cohen gave birth to twins on May 22, 2006, at the age of 59. She and her husband had previously had a daughter together through IVF in December 2004.

Patricia Rashbrook gave birth to a son in Brighton, England, on July 5, 2006, at the age of 62. She and her husband received, in Russia, IVF treatment from the same Italian fertility expert who the Della Cortes had consulted.

Memnune Tiryaki gave birth to her first child, son Yasin, on October 9, 2006, at the age of 64, after IVF treatment with oocytes donation, practiced in Turkish-occupied section of Cyprus. Tiryaki and her 62-year-old husband were trying to have children for 35 years.

Sarajean Grainson of Long Island, New York, gave birth to a son, Luke, in December 2006 at the age of 51 after IVF treatment with oocytes donation. Grainson and her second husband David had twins in June 2008 and she also had three adult children from her first marriage.

Ann Stolper gave birth to her own twin granddaughters in December 2006 at the age of 58, acting as a surrogate mother for her daughter and her husband. Her daughter had had a hysterectomy at age 25.

Dr Frieda Birnbaum gave birth to twin sons on May 22, 2007, at the age of 60. She underwent IVF at a South African fertility clinic specializing in older women.

Veronica Mensah gave birth to twins in July 2007 at the age of 55. She had been trying to have children since she was 25 and decided to try through IVF, which was done in her native Ghana.

Mileva Radulovic gave birth in July 2007, at the age of 62. Radulovic and her 69-year-old husband became first time parent after 35 years of marriage with the help of IVF treatment.

Rosinete Palmeira Serrão gave birth to her own twin grandsons at a hospital in Recife, Brazil, on September 28, 2007, at the age of 51, acting as a surrogate for her 27-year-old daughter, Claudia Michelle Serrão Pereira, who had tried to become pregnant for four years. The children were conceived through artificial insemination using Claudia's eggs and her husband's sperm.

Raisa Akhmadeeva gave birth to her first child, a boy, on January 10, 2008, at the age of 56. Her husband already had three children from his previous marriage, but they always wanted to have a child together.

Susan Tollefsen gave birth to her first child, a daughter, on March 28, 2008, at the age of 57 after IVF treatment with oocytes donation. She was refused treatment in Britain due to her age, so she went to Russia and Poland to receive IVF.

Karen Johnston of Bicester, England, gave birth to a girl, Willow, in June 2008 at the age of 52 after undergoing IVF treatment in the Czech Republic. She was already a mother of seven and had a set of twins in July 2010 also after IVF treatment in the same Czech clinic.

Sarajean Grainson of Long Island, New York, gave birth to twin sons in June 2008 at the age of 53 after IVF treatment with oocytes donation. Grainson and her second husband already had a son in December 2006 and she also had three adult children from her first marriage.

Omkari Panwar gave birth to twins on June 27, 2008. Omkari became pregnant through IVF treatment with a single oocytes donor, process which she and her husband pursued in order to produce a male heir.

A 57-year-old woman gave birth to a son in Kyiv, Ukraine, by Caesarean section on June 13, 2008. Her first son died at age 20, later she gave birth to twin boys, but they died after 10 days, so she and her husband decided to try once again.

Jacilyn Dalenberg gave birth to her own triplet granddaughters on October 11, 2008, at the age of 56, acting as a surrogate mother for her daughter and her husband. Her daughter became sterile after giving birth to her son.

Rajo Devi Lohan gave birth to a daughter, Naveen, at the age of 70. Lohan's health soon deteriorated and nearly died due to complications following childbirth.

Adele Dramis, an Italian woman of Greek origin, gave birth to twins in Naples, Italy, in late December 2008 at the age of 53. She had been trying to get pregnant since she got married at age 45 and decided to receive IVF treatment.

Ranjit Hayer gave birth to twin boys in February 2009 at the age of 60, becoming pregnant through fertility treatments and IVF practiced in India, after several miscarriages in several years.

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Adeney gave birth to a son on May 28, 2009, becoming Britain's oldest mother. The child, who was conceived through IVF treatment in Ukraine from oocyte and sperm donations, was delivered by Caesarean section.

Anita Makhtur, an Indian woman, gave birth to twin boys in December 2009 at the age of 51 after IVF treatment. She was unable to get pregnant for 23 years due to fibroma uteri and had two unsuccessful attempts of IVF. She is believed to be the oldest woman who had IVF using her own unfrozen oocytes.

Princess Lia Georgia Triff gave birth in Romania to the Prince Carol Ferdinand Hohenzollern on January 11, 2010; born on February 23, 1949, she was then 60 years old. She previously had a daughter born in 1973 from her first union. Later, Lia Triff alleged that she used her own frozen eggs.

Krasimira Dimitrova gave birth on May 5, 2010, to female twins after IVF treatment, at the age of 62. She decided to become pregnant after she was refused the option of adoption because of her age.

Heather Elizabeth Parisi, an Italian-American singer and actress, gave birth to twins (a girl and a boy) in Vicenza, Italy, at the age of 50. The twins were naturally conceived with her 42-year-old third husband.

Wu Cheng gave birth to twin girls prematurely via Caesarean section on May 25, 2010. The woman and her husband decided to go through IVF treatment after the death of their 28-year-old daughter and son-in-law.

Gabriella De Ambrosis gave birth to her first child, daughter Viola, on May 26, 2010, at the age of 56 after IVF treatment abroad. Gabriella and her husband had tried for many years to conceive naturally and also had two requests for adoption turned down.

Svetlana Krupenik gave birth to a girl in Kyiv, Ukraine, at the age of 50 after IVF treatment. She and her 62-year-old husband had been trying to conceive for 30 years.

Bhateri Devi gave birth to triplets in June 2010 at the age of 66, after IVF treatment with oocytes donation. One of the triplets died some days after the birth.

Karen Johnston of Bicester, England, gave birth to twins in July 2010 at the age of 54 after undergoing IVF treatment in the Czech Republic. She was already a mother of eight.

Aggie Ezekiel of Edmonton, Alberta, gave birth to her own granddaughter Clare at the age of 50, acting as a surrogate mother for her daughter, Tinna, who was born without a uterus. Aggie had to take fertilization hormones to accommodate eggs retrieved from her daughter and fertilized in vitro with sperm from her daughter's partner.

Pamela Butler, of Blackwood, Wales, gave birth to a boy via surrogacy in August 2010 at the age of 57. Her 35-year-old daughter had tried to have a baby on her own and failed. Pamela Butler became Britain's oldest surrogate mother.

Giovanna Ciardi gave birth to her third child, a daughter, on October 11, 2010, at the age of 54 after a natural conception.

Gianna Nannini, a 56-year-old Italian singer, gave birth to her first child, a girl named Penelope, on November 26, 2010, having conceived naturally following fertility treatments.

Carole Hobson gave birth to twins in December 2010 at the age of 58, following IVF treatment at a clinic in India.

Japanese politician Seiko Noda gave birth to a boy in Tokyo at the age of 50, conceived through in-vitro fertilization with assistance from an American egg donor, after years of unsuccessful fertility treatments and miscarriages.

Catherine Colonges, a French woman from Togo, gave birth to triplets (a girl and two boys) in Toulouse, France, at the age of 52 after conceiving naturally with her husband. Mrs. Colonges already had a 30-year-old and a 27-year-old son, a 15-year-old daughter, and three grandchildren.

Valentyna Pidverbna gave birth to her first child, a girl in February 2011. She underwent three cycles of IVF treatment to achieve positive results.

Kristine Casey gave birth to her own grandson on February 13, 2011, at the age of 61. She chose to act as a surrogate for her 36-year-old daughter, who is infertile.

Tineke Geessink gave birth to daughter Meagan on March 22, 2011, at the age of 63. Single mother Tineke Geessink explained that she had always longed for a child and chose to do so "whatever way she could". She was treated by the famous Italian doctor Severino Antinori, who implanted a donated oocyte fertilized with donated sperm.

Anna Fehér, a Hungarian actress, gave birth to her first child, a son, on June 4, 2011, at the age of 53. She had been trying to conceive for ten years.

Debbie Hughes of Daventry gave birth naturally to her son in June 2011 at the age of 53 after a natural conception. She had no plans to become a mother again when she became pregnant, as she had been taking contraceptive pills.

Anthea Nicholas, from Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, gave birth to her son, Nicholas Jay, on June 15, 2011. She is believed to be the oldest primigravida having naturally conceived in Australia. After being told in 2006 that they could not have children, her husband developed a diet and health regime which corrected a sperm imperfection, resulting in her unexpected pregnancy.

Solange Couto dos Santos gave birth to her third child, a son, on August 15, 2011, at the age of 54 after a natural conception.

Silvana Sofia, a 57-year-old doctor, gave birth to female twins in Salerno, Italy in September 2011. Her husband was 70 years old at that time.

Raju Ben gave birth to a son in January 2012 at the age of 60. Married for 40 years, she suffered with four miscarriages in the past and had multiple surgeries, so she and her husband decided to try IVF.

Maria Addolorata Montuori gave birth to triplets on May 9, 2012, after post-menopausal IVF treatment, with oocytes donation fertilized by sperm of her husband.

Shakuntala Devi from India gave birth to her second son at the age of 52 after conceiving naturally with her husband, Ramjit Raghav, aged 96. She gave birth to her first child in 2010 at the age of 50.

Antônia Letícia Asti gave birth to twins on October 26, 2012, one week after her 61st birthday, after a post-menopausal IVF treatment using her own frozen oocytes fertilized by her husband remaining after their three previous unsuccessful attempts since 1992.

Naomi Gryn, an English writer and filmmaker, gave birth to her first child, a daughter, at UCLH on October 31, 2012, at the age of 51 after IVF treatment.

Mrs. Rashmi Verma gave birth to a daughter in Delhi, India, in 2013 at the age of 51. Mrs. Verma and her husband decided to go through fertility treatment after the accidental death of their only child.

Tina Malone, an English actress, gave birth to a baby girl in December 2013 at the age of 50 after IVF treatment.

Lisa Swinton McLaughlin gave birth to premature twin boys on December 27, 2014, at the age of 56 after more than 10 years of fertility treatment attempts. She died at home of a bowel obstruction on January 4, 2015, while her sons were still in the hospital.

Galina Shubenina gave birth to a daughter in February 2015, at the age of 62. She wanted to have a child after the death of her son from previous marriage.

Sebastiana Maria da Conceicao gave birth to her 21st child in Aracaju, Brazil, in May 2015 at the age of 51. The little boy joined the family of 10 brothers and 10 sisters, of whom 18 were alive.

Haya Shahar gave birth to a son in May 2015 at Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba. She became the oldest woman in Israel to give birth. The IVF was performed abroad since it is illegal in Israel to perform IVF on a woman over 54.

Punjiben Patel gave birth to a son in May 2015 at the age of 60. Married in 1982, she and her husband failed to conceive naturally. Patel became pregnant after the first attempt of IVF.

Sophie B. Hawkins, an American singer, gave birth to a baby girl named Esther Ballantine Hawkins on July 7, 2015, at the age of 50 after IVF treatment.

Sharon Cutts gave birth to triplets in March 2016 at the age of 55 after undergoing IVF treatment in Cyprus.

Daljinder Kaur gave birth to a son on April 19, 2016, after nearly five decades of marriage and two unsuccessful IVF tries. The clinic where she had IVF treatments stated she was 72.

Atifa Nokić gave birth on 20 June 2017, at the age of 60. Nokić and her 68-year-old husband became fifth time parents with the help of IVF treatment.

Muazzez Çınar gave birth to twin boys in September 2017 at the age of 55 after IVF treatment. They named one of the boys after their son, who drowned in the sea.

Irina Vitorgan gave birth to a baby girl on February 26, 2018, at the age of 56 after IVF treatment.

Tammy Duckworth, an American politician, gave birth to her second child, a girl named Maile, in April 2018 at the age of 50 after IVF treatment.

Julia Zhabyko gave birth to triplets (two sons and a daughter) in Vladivostok, Russia, in June 2018 at the age of 51 after IVF treatment.

Brigitte Nielsen gave birth to her fifth child in June 2018 at the age of 54. She and her fifth husband were finally successful after trying with IVF for 14 years, using eggs she had frozen around age 40.

Tracey Britten, 50, gave birth to quadruplets (twin girls, another baby girl, and a boy) via caesarean section in October 2018 after IVF treatment, becoming Britain's oldest mother of quadruplets.

Michele Hall of Golden Gate, Florida, already a mother of four, gave birth to a baby boy, Grayson Matthew, in December 2018 at the age of 50.

Emma Miles gave birth to her granddaughter Evie on January 16, 2019, at the age of 55, acting as a surrogate mother for her daughter, who was born without a womb.

Cecile Eledge gave birth to her own granddaughter on March 25, 2019, at the age of 61. She chose to be a gestational surrogate for her son and his husband and used IVF with oocytes donated from her son-in-law's sister and fertilized with her son's sperm.

Xinju Tian got pregnant at 67 and gave birth on October 25, 2019, via caesarean section. Tian and her husband named their daughter Tianci, meaning "heaven sent" in Mandarin Chinese.

Lorraine Chan was 51 when she gave birth to a son in December 2019.

Margaret Adenuga went through three previous IVF procedures before finally having twins. The babies were delivered via caesarian section at 37 weeks.

Cláudia Raia, a Brazilian actress, gave birth on February 11, 2023, to her third child with her third husband, using her frozen oocytes.

Victoria Coren Mitchell, a British TV presenter, gave birth to a daughter, June, on October 26, 2023. The couple also have an older child, born in 2015.

Safina Namukwaya gave birth aged 70 to twins via caesarean section on the 29th of November 2023, as reported by the hospital via Facebook, claiming she was Africa's oldest mother. She had previously given birth to a baby girl in 2020. Namukwaya reported that her husband had abandoned her after learning that she was expecting twins.

Rachel Danieli welcomed a child with her second husband on March 10, 2024, when she was 56 and he was 88.