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Oops! baby at 45

Catherine McDiarmid-Watt | Saturday, April 27, 2019 | 1 comments

Image: Oops! babies pose challenge to parents and siblings

On Father's Day 2007, over pancakes at IHOP, Doris and Randy Worcester broke the news to their daughters, ages 15, 12 and 9 years old...

Their family was about to have a new addition.

No, it wasn't a new bathroom or bedroom or a new car, the girls discovered.

Instead, in just about five months, they would have a new baby brother.

It was a stunning shock when we found out, Randy said. There was a nine-year gap there.

Randy and Doris had found themselves, at ages 45 and 44, the parents-to-be of an unplanned child, or what some refer to as an Accidental or Oops! baby.

This Pregnancy Over 40 story was found on SalJournal.com
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Originally posted on November 9, 2008.

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Category: 44, 45

About Catherine: I am mom to three grown sons, two grandchildren and two rescue dogs. After years of raising my boys as a single mom, I remarried a wonderful man who had never had a child of his own. Unexpectedly, I found myself pregnant at 49!
Sadly we lost our precious baby at 8 weeks, and decided to try again. Five more losses, turned down for donor egg, foster care and adoption due to my age and losses - we have accepted there will be no more babies in our house.

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1 comments

Anonymous says:

2/21/2011 2:15 pm

My one brother-in-law age 56 has a young brother age 36. Both their parents are dead; so the occasional times when the younger brother is together with the elder and my sister, and they meet up with a stranger my brother-in-law introduces his brother: "Hi, this this my wife and my brother. I wonder if the brother realizes he was an "oops" and how the parents talked about it with him. Did he have negative feelings? Is there, often, uneasiness toward his parents?

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