Can a 60-year-old woman have children? Obstetrician: Natural conception is unlikely

A few days ago, a sixty-year-old couple in Anhui gave birth to a 6-kilogram baby girl, and the hospital where the peasant woman gave birth clarified that the actual age of the mother was 43 years old. (Jimu News previously reported: Anhui Hospital debunked the rumor that "sixty couples give birth to women": the mother is actually only 43 years old) Does a woman over the age of 60 have the possibility of having children? Wang Dan, deputy chief physician of the Obstetrics Department of the Optics Valley Branch of Wuhan Third Hospital, said that it is unlikely that a woman aged 60 and above will have a child through natural conception.

Wang Dan introduced that whether a woman can have children through natural conception is closely related to her ovarian function, the quantity and quality of eggs. The total number of eggs in a woman is basically determined during her fetal period, and from birth she will not produce new egg cells, only the existing egg cells will be consumed. Women are generally born with about 2 million egg cells, leaving 300,000 to 400,000 eggs at the time of menarche. Women consume more than 1,000 egg cells per menstrual period to produce 1 to 2 mature eggs. A woman produces about 400 to 500 mature eggs in her lifetime, and the time to release mature eggs lasts about 30 years, from her 10s to her 40s.

For women, the optimal age of childbearing is between the ages of 23 and 30, and the latest effective age of childbearing is 10 years before menopause. If a woman is menopausal at age 50, then 40 is a relatively late effective reproductive age for her. But now with the improvement of living standards, health levels, and medical levels, women's reproductive age has gradually been postponed, and in real life, women in their 40s will also have children, but women over 45 years old who rely on natural conception to give birth have decreased significantly, and the situation of women over 50 years old giving birth is very rare in reality, and women over 60 years old are unlikely to have children.

Wang Dan said that although there have been media reports on the birth of women over the age of 60, most experts in the industry have questioned this. Experts believe that women at this age have declined ovarian function, can not produce mature eggs, the possibility of natural conception is unlikely, but if it is through assisted reproductive technology, there is also a certain possibility.

Wang Dan introduced that with very few exceptions, women cannot produce mature eggs after menopause, so they cannot conceive naturally. For men, male fertility lasts longer and later than women.

Source: Jimu News reporter Zhang Wanjun