Britain's oldest mother, 老年の 66, gives birth to a 5lb 3oz boy

By Andrew 徴収する for the Daily Mail and Lucy Ballinger for MailOnline
Updated: 09:45 BST, 28 May 2009

A woman of 66 has given birth to a baby boy? -? making her Britain's oldest new mother.

Elizabeth Adeney and her newborn son, who 重さを計るd 5lb 3oz, are said to be doing '極端に 井戸／弁護士席'? in hospital.

Caesarean: Elizabeth Adeney gave birth on Tuesday

The child, who was conceived through IVF, was 配達するd by caesarean section on Tuesday afternoon.?

Doctors are understood to have brought the 手続き 今後 because Mrs Adeney, who carried her son almost to 十分な 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語, had developed a 複雑化.

Mrs Adeney becomes the UK's oldest mother by four years, 追いつくing Patti Farrant who had a son, Jude, at the age of 62 three years ago.

A friend of the 離婚 said: 'Lizzie is 絶対 thrilled. This is something she thought might never happen. She can't wait to get home and start her new life with her boy.'

As 明らかにする／漏らすd in the Daily Mail earlier this month, Mrs Adeney travelled to ウクライナ共和国 for the IVF 治療 as clinics here 辞退する to 扱う／治療する women over 50.

The 事例／患者 has reignited the 審議 over 地位，任命する-menopausal motherhood which has been made possible by modern 科学の techniques.

Mrs Adeney first had fertility 治療 two １０年間s ago during her short-lived marriage to Robert Adeney, now 71, but was told by 医療の 専門家s at the time that she could no longer conti nue with 試みる／企てるs to 落ちる 妊娠している.

A source の近くに to Mr Adeney said the marriage 創立者d as Mrs Adeney became 消費するd with the 願望（する） to have children.

Mrs Adeney has been 気が進まない to discuss her pregnancy other than to defend her 決定／判定勝ち（する） to have IVF, 説: 'It's not physical age that is important? -? it's how I feel inside. Some days I feel 39. Others, I feel 56.'

She continued working at Delmore Ltd, the Suffolk plastics and 織物s 会社／堅い where she is managing director, until days before the birth and is 推定する／予想するd to return.

A room at her £600,000 house in the Suffolk hamlet of Lidgate has been 変えるd into a nursery and a nanny has been 雇うd to help the new mother when she arrives home from Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.

● The rising number of women who 延期する childbirth has been linked to a にわか景気 in underweight babies, who have a greater chance of developmental problems.

Britain has the second worst 率 for low birth 負わせるs in Western Europe.

In 2006, 78 out of every 1,000 babies were born at いっそう少なく than 5lb 8oz, compared to 67 in 1999.

Elizabeth Adeney's son was born healthy at almost 十分な-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 but 重さを計るd just 5lb 3oz. The 普通の／平均（する） 負わせる of a newborn baby is 7lb 8oz.

Births in the over-45s have 二塁打d in a １０年間 to more than 1,100 per year.