While there are different opinions on this, THIS is why I feel there should be some type of age limit to having children. While even young moms die and you can die at anytime, it's more likely to happen when you're older like this. My heart breaks for those kids. Clarity is that age and I know she would be lost without me and she has her dad. These babies don't even have that. It breaks my heart.

World's oldest new mom dies, leaves toddler twins behind

MADRID – A Spanish woman believed to have become the world's oldest new mother when she gave birth at 66 has died at 69, leaving behind twin toddlers, newspapers reported Wednesday.

Maria del Carmen Bousada, who reportedly died Saturday, gave birth in December 2006 as a single mother after getting in vitro fertilization treatment at a clinic in Los Angeles.

The births ignited a firestorm of debate over how old is too old for a new mother, and how much responsibility fertility clinics have over who gets treatments.

Bousada told an interviewer she lied to the fertility clinic about her age, and maintained that because her mother had lived to be 101, she had a good chance of living long enough to raise a child.

Bousada's death was reported by the newspaper El Mundo and Diario de Cadiz. Cadiz is the southern province where Bousada lived her whole life.

Diario de Cadiz quoted her brother, Ricardo Bousada, as confirming her death but refusing to disclose the cause. The newspaper said she had been diagnosed with a tumor shortly after giving birth.

The Barcelona-based newspaper El Periodico de Catalunya quoted Ricardo Bousada as saying he sold the exclusive on his sister's death to an unidentified television program and that the proceeds would go to looking after his sister's twins.

The newspaper quoted him as saying that it had been "very difficult. Lately, she had been really bad." He could give no further details because of the arrangement, the newspaper reported.

The Associated Press was not immediately able to reach the brother for comment.

There was no word on who would raise the children, named Pau and Christian. Bousada had once said she would look for a younger man to help her raise them.

In January 2007, she told the British tabloid News of the World that she sold her house to raise $59,000 to pay for the in vitro fertilization.

"I think everyone should become a mother at the right time for them," Bousada said in a video of the interview provided to Associated Press Television News.

"Often circumstances put you between a rock and a hard place, and maybe things shouldn't have been done in the way they were done, but that was the only way to achieve the thing I had always dreamed of, and I did it," she said.

The retired department store employee said she told the Pacific Fertility Center that she was 55 — the clinic's cut-off for treating single women. She said the clinic did not ask her for identification.

Bousada lived with her mother most of her life in Cadiz. She hatched her plan to have children after her mother died in 2005, she said, initially keeping her plan secret from her family. When she finally told them she was two months pregnant, they thought she was joking.

"Yes, I am old of course, but if I live as long as my mom did, imagine, I could even have grandchildren," she said in the video.

That is very sad.
She lied about her age, and the clinic never even verified her id, that's crazy.

I feel so sad for those kids.

that is very sad.

Sad story. There should be an age limit, but nature should be what chooses it I think if you can get preggers than you should be able to, but without and assistance KWIM?

well sure if it happens naturally, nothing you can do about that. lol. I'm just saying there should be an age limit on going out and getting IVF or whatever and having babies way up in age with no help. I'm talking grandma age here (and not young grandma age)... lol.

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The retired department store employee said she told the Pacific Fertility Center that she was 55 — the clinic's cut-off for treating single women. She said the clinic did not ask her for identification.

Maybe the clinic should make anyone even close to the cut off prove thier age. She lied and they didnt ask for anything to prove otherwise.

those poor babies....yeah there should totally be an age limit...and i think honestly the cut off should be 45.....and all clinics should require birth certificates and driver licenses in order to confirm the age.

Thats so sad.

that is really sad situation.