Wouldn't it be a surprise to learn you're expecting ... 30 YEARS after thinking you'd taken the steps necessary to prevent that AND after being well past the normal age of menopause ???? ... talk about a shock!!! This article appeared on MSNBC today and it blew my mind ...
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59-year-old pregnant with twins
Multiple birth would break record
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.
