It is not the first time, nor will it probably be the last, that a woman is a mother when, by age, she could be a grandmother (and according to where even a great grandmother). There are many cases that we have commented on Babies and more and now we know a new one, that of A Dutch woman who has been a mother at 63.
The event has been possible thanks to in vitro fertilization, achieved with the donation of both ovules and sperm, that is, without the girl who was born inheriting any gene from her mother.
In the Netherlands there is an age limit for in vitro treatments, surpassed by this mother 18 years ago (that is, established in the 45 years), however nobody can prohibit a Dutch woman from undergoing a fertilization treatment in another country and This is what this woman did, named Tineke Geessink, who traveled to Italy, where there is a clinic where a controversial Italian gynecologist named Severino Antinori works.
I say controversial because it appeared on Dutch public television comparing its Dutch colleagues with the "Taliban" for limiting the age of fertilization and not allowing elderly women to be mothers with these treatments.
The woman gave birth to a girl by caesarean section and declared on television in her country that everything responded to her “Deep desire to be a mother and that he hoped that both her daughter and she could “Enjoy together for a long time”.
Once again a deep ethical dilemma is created with a case like this for various reasons. To start, having a child or not is a very personal decision, that is clear, however, It is a decision that not only affects the person who gives birth, but also the person who is born.
It is not the same to have a child with 25 years than 45 and much less is the same to have it with 63 years. Life expectancy in Holland is 82 years. This means that it is possible that her daughter is left without a mother (father does not have, because the woman is single) with 19 years (maybe before or maybe later), having to be aware that people are not healthy and one day they leave, but that in the last years of our lives the quality of life tends to fall as a result of the sum of various chronic diseases that They appear as time goes by.
However, on the other hand, it is necessary to think that in the years that both can share, perhaps this mother is able to offer her daughter the same, or more, than any other mother in the world, more if we consider that at 65 he could retire and dedicate all his time to his daughter, something that not all mothers can say.
Anyway, as long as doctors and gynecologists are still able to fight against the laws of nature, there will continue to be cases like this, which we hope will not end up like Carmen Bousada's already known, the woman who had twins at 67 and died two years and Half after being a mother.
