The mother-heroine from Russia got into the Guinness Book of Records. The oldest mothers in Russia Induska gave birth at 70 years old
According to the Guinness Book of Records, a Russian woman gave birth to most children in the 18th century: in 30 years she gave birth to 69 children
In the Guinness Book of Records, it is recorded that most of all children were born in the 18th century by a Russian woman, about whom it is only known that she was the wife of the peasant Fyodor Vasilyev. For 30 years she gave birth 27 times: 16 pairs of twins, 7 triplets and 4 quadruples. There are 69 children in total.
By the way, after the death of his first wife, Fyodor Vasiliev remarried, and his second wife gave birth to 18 more children: six twins and two triplets. However, even this result does not allow Fyodor Vasilyev to be considered the most large father in history. But the record of an unnamed peasant woman has not yet been broken.
Perhaps there is not a single country where Mother's Day is not celebrated. In Russia, it appeared relatively recently - it has been celebrated on the last Sunday of November since 1998, but gradually it enters Russian houses... And this is wonderful: no matter how many good, kind words we say to our mothers, there will still be few of them.
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The most unusual mothers
The mother who gave birth to the tiniest child. Baby Mahajabina Sheikh at birth weighed 243, 81 g with a height of 10 cm.
The oldest mother. Indian woman Rayo Devi Lohan gave birth for the first time at the age of 70.
The youngest mother was Lina Medina. The girl gave birth to a child when she was 5 years and 7 months old.
A mother who gave birth to eight children at a time. Nadia Denise Daud-Suleman Gutierrez was born in 2009, and six more children were waiting for her at home.
The world record for the difference between births is set by Elizabeth Ann. She gave birth to her first child in 1956, when she was 19 years old, and her second son was born when her mother was already 60 years old. Thus, the difference was 41 years.
There are many known women who became mothers at the age when many are already grandmothers. There are some in Russia too. Let's learn more about women for whom age is not a hindrance to having children.
The oldest mom in history
Rajo Devi Lohan is the name of the oldest mother in history, who lives in a village in India. She gave birth to her first child at the age of seventy. It is known that the woman got married when she was twelve and her husband was fourteen. In India, it is customary to have many children, but the couple never had a single child in their entire life, despite the healthy lifestyle. According to them, they repeatedly turned to doctors and healers.After living for fifty-eight years in marriage, the couple learned about IVF from a television program. In India, this procedure costs three and a half thousand dollars. It was a huge amount for the family, but they decided to give it a try. So after seventy years, the first child appeared in the family - the daughter of Navi. Unfortunately, such a late birth did not go without consequences for the aging mother. Her health is seriously damaged.
There is another woman who gave birth at seventy years - this is the Indian woman Omkari Ranwar. She also managed to get pregnant thanks to IVF. She gave birth to two healthy children. The father of the kids is seventy-seven years old. These children were not the first in the family. The couple already have two adult daughters and five grandchildren.
Both of these record holders became mothers only thanks to IVF. But there are also some mothers who were able to get pregnant naturally. Such is the inhabitant of the island of Grancie Dawn Brooke. She gave birth at fifty-nine, but before conception she had to undergo hormone therapy. In the history of mankind, it is this heroic woman who is recognized as the oldest mother who managed to give birth to a living child, conceiving him naturally.
Ellen Alice, a Welsh woman, is a mother of many children who, in the late eighteenth century, at the age of seventy-two, carried her thirteenth child. Unfortunately, he was born dead. This woman is considered the oldest mom in history.
The oldest mother with many children in Russia
There are mothers who manage to give birth to many children in their lives. They are called large. Of all the famous mothers of large families, one of the record holders was the Englishwoman Elizabeth Greenhill. She gave birth to her thirty-ninth child at the age of fifty-four. This was in 1669. All her pregnancies ended in the birth of healthy children, while twins were born only once. Thus, the woman gave birth thirty-eight times. 
But a Russian woman who lived in the city of Shuya in the eighteenth century gave birth only twenty-seven times, but she had sixty-nine children. All that is known about this mother with many children is that she was a peasant, her husband was Fyodor Vasiliev.
The oldest mother in Russia today
In the ranking of the oldest mothers on the planet, Russian woman Natalya Surkova takes fourth position. The woman became a mother at fifty-seven years old. She gave birth to a healthy baby girl Sasha. At that time, the woman was the mother of two grown children and the grandmother of one grandson. Conception became possible thanks to hormone therapy. She got into the Guinness Book of Records of Russia as the oldest mother in the country. 
Sasha is the granddaughter of the famous poet Alexei Surkov, and Natalia, respectively, is his daughter. Before conception, Surkova turned to the gynecological center, where she said that she wanted to have a baby, which surprised the staff very much. I had to "renew" the body, for this the woman went to the clinic, where she was among women who had difficulties with conception. Few believed in the success of this whole venture, but time passed, and the test showed a positive result.
Surkova's pregnancy passed without pathologies and complications, there was not even edema. In the spring of 1996, childbirth took place, and Natalya became the oldest mother in Russia. Surprisingly, by then, her grandson was two years old. The woman claims that after giving birth she is many years younger and feels just great. Natalia believes that her Sasha has an unusual happy fate prepared, since she is an unusual child.
There is another old mother in Russia - this is Lyudmila Belyavskaya. At fifty-two, she became the mother of a young daughter. Her husband - actor Alexander Belyavsky was then seventy.
The main argument of "adult" mothers is a deliberate approach to conception and pregnancy. By this time, they have already found a certain wealth, their life is stable, family relationships are stable. Thanks to the accumulated experience, old mothers are always more attentive and patient about the needs of their babies and spend more time on their development.
In addition to natural conception, there is also such a way to become a mother, like surrogacy. Someone turns to the help of surrogate mothers because they themselves do not want to bear and give birth to a child, someone does it because of poor health or age. Today
It's never too late to become a mother! This was confirmed by one resident of India. In 2016, on April 19, a 70-year-old woman gave birth to a completely healthy baby, moreover, her first child.
This is incredible, because scientists unanimously state that after 45 years, the chances of conceiving a child are practically zero.
After the exchange of the fifties, this event can be considered a miracle. What can we say about those who have stepped over 70. At this age, they do not even dream of experiencing the joy of motherhood.
The older a woman becomes, the worse her reproductive system functions, and it is she who is responsible for the act of fertilization. Therefore, closer to the age of 50, most women think about how to raise their grandchildren rather than about the possibility of having a child.
The course of labor
Our heroine was not frightened by any warnings from scientists, and now she and her husband, who, by the way, is also no longer young (at the time of birth he was 79 years old), are happy parents.
They had a son, whom the couple named Armaan. His weight was 2 kg, which is considered slightly below normal. It happened at the Indian National Institute of Reproductive Medicine.
The extraordinary childbirth went smoothly, according to health workers. The child was born thanks to a standard procedure - a cesarean section. His mom feels great and really happy to hold her boy in her arms. 
Thus, the brave Hindu broke the record set by her fellow countrywoman, Rajo Devi Lohan (Rajo Devi Lohan). This woman received the status of "oldest mother" in 2006 at the age of 70. The IVF procedure helped her to do this, and its effectiveness gives hope to women around the world who cannot get pregnant.
Preparation for conception
Before conception, the doctors carefully examined the patient and came to the conclusion that she was not 70 years old, but about 72 years old. And all because Mrs. Daljinder (that is her name) did not have a birth certificate. And it is not surprising that the conception of a child was artificial.
For several months, the woman's ovaries were stimulated with special drugs. The eggs obtained in the course of this were fertilized with the ejaculate of the future father and implanted into the future mother.
The news that at 70 years old you can safely give birth without problems for the health of the baby and yourself, the society perceived differently.
Some look at this event with enthusiasm, while others criticize assisted reproductive technologies in every possible way. Apparently, discussions around this topic will not subside for a long time.
Each woman is unique, her body develops and ages according to its own genetic plan. Some women have the opportunity to give birth to many children, others suffer from infertility and only in the second half of their lives decide to resort to modern medical technologies to combat infertility. Whether it is right or not, to give birth to a child at a later age, everyone decides for himself. The oldest mom in the world - who is she?
Each girl is born with a certain number of eggs laid in the ovaries. They begin to mature with the onset of sexual development in girls at the age of 11-14. During each menstrual cycle (MC), one egg matures and leaves the ovary. During its maturation, under the influence of gonadotropic hormones of the pituitary gland, the walls of the follicle (bubble) surrounding the egg cell secrete hormones estrogens, which prepare the body for pregnancy and at the same time have a regulatory effect on the entire body.
After the release of the egg from the ovary (ovulation), it is possible to fertilize it with a sperm and the beginning of pregnancy. From that time on, the rest of the follicle turns into a new gland - the corpus luteum and begins to produce the hormone of the second half of the MC or the hormone of pregnancy, if it occurs, progesterone. By the end of the MC, if pregnancy does not occur, the mucous membrane of the mark cavity (endometrium) is rejected, which is accompanied by bleeding and MC begins again.
Thanks to the MC, a woman has the opportunity to become pregnant and then bear a child. Why can't some people do it? There can be many reasons, first of all it is congenital hormonal insufficiency. Disorders can be at any level of the neurohormonal system, which produces hormones to support a woman's reproductive function - in the area of the hypothalamus, pituitary gland, ovaries. Changes can occur in the uterus or fallopian tubes - adhesions may appear there against the background of prolonged inflammatory processes, etc.
All these processes are being successfully treated today, and until a woman has the first signs of a decrease in hormonal levels (menopause), she may well become a mother. But with the onset of menopause, the ovaries are depleted, the number of eggs becomes less and less, and the remaining ones have defects. That is why, after 40 years, it is more difficult to become pregnant naturally, and if this does happen, then the elderly woman has no guarantee of having a healthy child.
But there are exceptions to the rule. Most often, older mothers are those women who already have several children (the more, the greater the possibility of late pregnancy and its successful outcome). Heredity is also of great importance in this matter.
What modern medicine has to offer
Medicine has a number of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) that allow giving birth to a baby at any age, if only the health of an elderly mother can withstand difficult treatment. All these technologies can be conditionally divided into three large groups:
- technologies that allow conceiving a child using the parents' eggs and sperm cells "in a test tube", followed by transplantation into the mother's uterus;
- technologies that allow conceiving a baby using donor eggs or sperm (both materials are possible) "in a test tube" with subsequent transplantation into the mother's uterus;
- technologies that allow conceiving a child using the parents' eggs and sperm cells "in a test tube", followed by transplantation into the uterus of a surrogate mother.
Rating of the oldest women in labor in the world
6th place - Adrienne Barbeau (51 years old)
American actress who gave birth to her second child (the first was already an adult) at the age of 51. Prior to that, she repeatedly tried to get pregnant using the IVF (in vitro fertilization) program. After a series of unsuccessful attempts, she calmed down and no longer tried to do anything, as a result, she became pregnant naturally. Commentary: it happens, the psychological factor is of great importance.
5th place - Debbie Hughes (53 years old)
An Englishwoman became pregnant and gave birth to a healthy baby at 53 while taking COCs (combined oral contraceptives). The woman already had three adult children. Comment: good heredity + hormonal contraceptives did not work (manufacturers never give a 100% guarantee).
4th place - Elizabeth Greenhill (54 years old)
Another British woman, who in the 17th century. gave birth to another baby. The baby was 39th in a row, and the mother was "only" 54. All the children born to this woman survived. Commentary: A large number of pregnancies support a woman's reproductive system.
3rd place - Kathleen Campbell (55 years old)
A resident of the United Kingdom became pregnant at 55 and gave birth to a son without any support benefits. Comment: such heredity.
2nd place - Don Brook (59 years old)
A British woman who gave birth to a healthy son in 1997 at 59. At first she mistook the pregnancy for cancer and only after an examination was surprised to find out that she was pregnant. Commentary: The situation is not entirely clear, since there is no data on whether she had any more children.
1st place - Ellen Ellis (72 years old)
And again the Englishwoman. The oldest woman in labor, who lived in the 17th century. She gave birth to her last child without complications at 72, but he was stillborn. The births were 13th in a row! This is the oldest mother who gave birth naturally. Comment: a woman who has given birth many times could theoretically preserve her reproductive function, stillbirth is also characteristic of old age.
Surprisingly, this list is dominated by moms from foggy Albion. What is their secret?
Rating of the oldest mothers in the world who gave birth to children using IVF
Women who decide to get pregnant with IVF almost do not risk: before taking the patient into the program, she is carefully examined, if necessary, treated. Throughout pregnancy, the patient is monitored and the birth of a child with a disability is completely excluded (if during the next examination a severe anomaly is found, the woman is offered to terminate the pregnancy).
No. 8. Lauren Cohan (58)
A woman from the United States gave birth to twins (a boy and a girl) in 2006 at 58.
Two years before that, she gave birth to her second daughter (the first was already an adult).
No. 7. Anne Stolper (58)
An Englishwoman, as a surrogate mother at 58, carried twins (the biological mother was her daughter with a removed uterus).
No. 6. Sandra Lennon (59 years old)
A resident of Britain who, with the help of IVF at 58 and 59 years old, gave birth to two sons with an interval of only one year (in 2003 and 2004); has two adult children and four grandchildren who do not support an elderly mother.
No. 5. Janice Wolfe (62)
An Englishwoman, in 2006 gave birth to a son at 62, having by that time adult daughters, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
No. 4. Annegret Raunig (65)
An Englishwoman, with the help of the IVF program at 65, gave birth to four at once (3 sons and a daughter); childbirth was the eighth in a row.
No. 3. Adriana Iliescu (66)
The Romanian couldn't become a mother in a natural way; several times unsuccessfully underwent IVF, but still managed to get pregnant and give birth to a daughter in 2005 at 66.
# 2. Maria Carmen Busada de Lara (66 years old)
A Spanish woman, in 2006, gave birth to twins, as she believed that she had a good heredity (her mother lived to be 101). She died two years after giving birth from ovarian cancer.
# 1. Rayo Devi (70 years old)
An Indian woman, the oldest woman in labor in the world, in 2008, with the help of IVF program at 70, gave birth to a girl; the birth was very difficult; this caused public outrage, the question arose about the legality of the IVF procedure at such an old age.
The story of an elderly mother (video)
The oldest mothers in Russia
In Russia, as well as on the whole planet, in last years there were many women giving birth to children after 40 years. Actresses Marina Zudina, Marina Mogilevskaya, ballerina Ilze Liepa gave birth to their first children at the age of 40. Olesya Sudzilovskaya and Olga Kabo became mothers again at the same age.
But there are older mothers in Russia:
Galina Shubenina (60 years old)
The oldest mother in Russia, with the help of the IVF program, gave birth to a healthy daughter in 2017.
Dangers of late childbirth
Childbirth is always a challenge, even for young women. In old age, the risks during childbirth increase manifold. The contractile ability of the uterine muscles decreases, the risk of severe bleeding increases. Prolonged labor leads to the fact that the fetus suffers from a lack of oxygen and nutrients, which can further affect the state of his brain.
To avoid such complications during childbirth, older mothers are sent to the hospital in advance and often undergo a planned caesarean section.
Many older women want to give birth to a baby. Not everyone does it in a natural way, but there are still cases when women give birth after 50 years. Such mothers are advised to regularly visit their gynecologist during pregnancy and undergo all the necessary examinations in order to give birth to a healthy baby. With the help of IVF, you can give birth at a later age, if the health of the expectant mother allows.