Good to lift IVF age limit, but will women still have eggs?
Doctors want more clarity from a proposed set of guidelines on how old is considered too old for a woman to get pregnant. Some also hope the ban on egg freezing for non-medical reasons will be lifted as older women will have few viable eggs left to conceive even if they are allowed to have IVF.
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A 58-year-old woman gave birth to twins here in 2016 – making her possibly the oldest new mother in Singapore.
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While such extreme maternal ages were unheard of here until a few years ago, what is increasingly being seen is women in their mid-to late 40s giving birth. Doctors say many of these women go to great lengths – from travelling overseas for in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatments to using donor eggs – to become mothers.
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