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How old is too old for a safe pregnancy?

  • Written by Hannah Brown, Post-doctoral Fellow; Reproductive Epigenetics, University of Adelaide
imageSocial and financial pressures are driving many Australian women who want to have children to wait until later in life.mimagephotography/Shutterstock

This week, an Australian woman delivered a baby at the age of 62 after having in vitro fertilisation (IVF) abroad.

Few women can naturally conceive a baby later in life without the help of IVF –...

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