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Britain's Oldest Mother at 62
Questions are raised about the ethics of fertility treatment for older women
Bhuwan Thapaliya (Bhuwan) Email Article Print Article
Published 2006-07-09 00:13 (KST)
A 62-year-old child psychiatrist has become the oldest woman in Britain to have a baby.
Dr Patricia Rashbrook of Lewes in East Sussex gave birth by caesarean section to a bouncing baby boy on July 5, beating the record set by Welsh hill farmer Liz Buttle in 1997. Buttle was 60 when she had her son Joseph.
Both women are spring chickens in comparison to Adriana Iliescu. Last January the Romanian gave birth to her daughter Eliza Maria at the age of 66. She is thought to be the oldest woman in the world to have a baby.
Rashbrook was treated by Italian fertility specialist Severino Antinori. Antinori made headlines when he helped 63-year-old Rosana Della Cortes become a mother in 1994.
Rashbrook and her 60-year-old husband John Farrant had to travel all the way to the Romania to receive care from the Italian doctor.
Critics have branded the new parents as selfish and irresponsible. That's not surprising, Rashbrook will be 82 when her son celebrates his 20th birthday. How will she cope with his difficult teenage years?
Sadly I can not help wondering what it will be like for the adolescent to be faced with his parents' mortality so early in life. Dr Rashbrook is a child psychiatrist so it must be assumed that she knows what she is doing.
Dr Rashbrook defended herself to British tabloid The Daily Mail, saying that she felt, "it was the right thing to do." She added.
"We are both extremely healthy and I have always looked and felt very young, but nevertheless we have younger friends with children who have agreed to act as surrogate parents should anything happen to us...What is important in parenting is not how old you are, but whether you are meeting all the child's needs and we are very confident about doing that."
Rashbrook has been widely criticized in the media. Her opponents might have had more sympathy for her actions if she had never had a child, but she has three adult offspring from her first marriage. Some may ask why she could not content herself with grandchildren.
Nevertheless, it is interesting to note that many men in their 60s and older become new fathers without attracting global media attention. This seems more than a little unfair on men because it suggests that the father's role is less important.
The new baby, who has been nicknamed JJ and has yet to receive an official name, is John Farrant's first child.
This helps to explain Rashbrook's motives and, in a way, shows that love is as important for older couples as it is for youngsters. 英国62岁老妈妈怀孕生子
2006 年7月9号
对老年妇女怀孕生子是否符合伦理引起极大的非议。
一位62岁的儿科心理医师最近成为英格兰最老的怀孕生子的老妈妈。东苏塞克斯省路易斯市的Patricia Rashbrook 医师于7月5日剖腹产下一活泼男婴，打破了由威尔士山农夫Liz Buttle于1997创造的记录-- 60岁产下了男婴约瑟夫。如果和去年一月以66岁高龄产下女儿Eliza Maria的Adriana Iliescu比的话,以上两位女性都算不上什么了（spring chickens "菜鸟"级别），Adriana Iliescu被认为是目前世界上最老怀孕生子的女性。
为Rashbrook服务的是意大利试管授精专家Severino Antinori, 他在1994年因帮助63岁的西班牙国会议员Rosana Della成为母亲而名声大振。
Rashbrook和她60岁的丈夫John Farrant不辞劳苦远赴罗马尼亚以接受意大利医生的照顾。
舆论指责这对新任父母是自私和不负责任的。毫无疑问的，当她的儿子满20岁的时候，Rashbrook已经82岁了。她如何能帮他应付困难的懵懂少年时期呢？
“非常遗憾我不能想象年少就必须面对双亲故去的情形是怎么样的，Rashbrook医生是一位儿科心理医师，想必她清楚地知道自己正在做什么。”
Rashbrook医生在英伦小报－《每日邮件》上为自己的行为辩护，她说她觉得“这是一件正确的事情”。她解释道：“我们都非常的健康而我总是感觉非常的年轻，不仅如此我们的年轻朋友们都愿意当孩子的代理双亲万一我和我丈夫有什么意外的话。。。养儿育女最重要的不是年龄，而是能否满足孩子的需要，我们非常有信心能做到这一点。”
Rashbrook受到了来自媒体的广泛批评。反对者也许会对她的行为保留一丝的同情如果她以前未有过子女，但是在第一次的婚姻里她已经有了3个成年子女。 许多人可能会质疑，为什么已拥有孙子的她还不能满足呢？
然而非常有意思的是当男人在60岁或更老才当爸爸似乎并没有引起全球媒体的关注。这多少对男性有些不公，因为这意味着父亲的角色并不那么重要。
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作者:admin@医学,生命科学 2011-02-23 17:11
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