Posted on 05/22/2007 4:17:05 PM PDT by Coleus
Frieda Birnbaum, 60, gave birth to twin boys Tuesday, becoming the oldest woman to give birth to twins in the United States. The babies were delivered at Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, N.J., by caesarean section. "Baby A" weighed 4 pounds, 11.4 ounces, and "Baby B" weighed 4 pounds, 11 ounces. Birnbaum said she felt great after delivering the two boys. "This is so wonderful, I feel so relaxed. It has been a great experience," she said. Birnbaum, who is a psychologist, and her husband Ken, a Manhattan attorney, have three other children a 6-year-old son, a 29-year-old daughter and a 33-year-old son. The husband and wife of 38 years said they had not settled on the names, but were leaning toward Jake and Jared.
Dr. Abdulla Al-Khan, director of prenatal diagnostics and therapeutics in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Hackensack University Medical Center, oversaw Birnbaum's pregnancy and delivered the twins. "This was a fabulous outcome. I'm extremely thrilled and delighted to have delivered a healthy mom and two healthy baby boys," he said. "They're doing very well." Before her noontime C-section, Birnbaum said she underwent in-vitro fertilization (IVF) last year in Cape Town, South Africa, so her youngest son, Ari, would have siblings closer to his age and because she wanted older women to be able to deliver children without a stigma attached.
My daughter feels I should be living in Florida having a good life, said Birnbaum, of Saddle River, N.J. I hope when shes older, shell see this and understand she has choices. I dont feel like Im 60. I dont know what 60 is meant to be. Al-Khan said there is just no rulebook for handling a pregnancy such as this one.
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Their first words:
“I hate you, Grandma!!”
Her response,
“No, I am NOT your grandmother!!”
Their first words:
“Am I in the will?”
God bless her and the kids. Twins are great, babies are great, God is in heaven and all is good with the world.
I don’t agree with this at all.
When the kids are twenty, they’ll be 80!
This is selfish indulgence. There is a reason why God steps in and stops a womans abilty to become pregnant. They’re TOO OLD! The energy level won’t be there and it’s not fair to the kids.
and within a minute’s time.
He’s slow, could not believe i was 50 seconds to posting.
Rather weird but I think what most of us were thinking.
How incredibly SELFISH to have a child knowing full well you may never live to see them graduate from high-school, let alone college, to marry or to have children of their own.
Please note that it takes someone as mentally ill as a psychologist married to a New York shyster lawyer to decide to make a baby she will never know in adult-hood.
Good going, you selfish old witch. There is a REASON women become infertile later in life. God doesn’t want you to die while you are changing the diapers.
Selfish, selfish, selfish, selfish, selfish, selfish, selfish, selfish, selfish, selfish!
SELFISH!
S - E - L - F - I - S - H !
Good for her, and best of luck.
However, I won’t be truly impressed unless they were her own eggs and not donor eggs.
Not saying that it makes the children any less precious, not at all - but this is commonplace now.
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