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Re: 50 yo & contraception From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu) Wed Oct 12 08:15:45 2005 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Andrew Folley: "Re: 50 yo & contraception" Previous message: Robert J. Carpenter, Jr. MD: "Re: Active management - third stage" In reply to: Marie Harkins: "Re: 50 yo & contraception" Next in thread: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: 50 yo & contraception" Prior to the advent of assisted reproductive technologies, I believe the World Record for a spontaneous conception and live birth was something like 57. A relative of mine became pregnant after 50 but I can't remember how old she was, and she miscarried. -- Anna Meenan, MD At Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Marie Harkins wrote: > >I saw a 54 yo woman, new pt, who came in for a problem visit saying she >"felt pregnant". She was indeed pregnant and on US had a gestational >sac and fetal pole that measured 8 weeks. She had a spont ab one week >later. > >I tell women who are 50+ and cycling that it is unlikely, but not >impossible, that they will become pregnant. I also tell them that >there is very little chance that if they do get pregnant it will be a >viable pregnancy. > >-- >Marie Harkins, CNM >Ithaca, NY > >On Tuesday, October 11, 2005, at 01:11 PM, Joanne Bulley, MD wrote: > >> A second topic for the later menopause woman. >> >> I tell them that although they are relatively infertile, th elast egg >> can setill be a "perfect" egg - that is may be capable of conception >> and >> normal pregnancy. So for those using barrier methods of cntraception I >> tell them they need to continue them until one year without menses. >> >> I just saw someone her second visit with me - she tells me her last >> gynecologist laughed when she asked if she needed to use birth control. >> So although last year she told me they were using condoms, this year >> she >> admits that they mostly use nothing. >> >> What do you tell them? >> >> -- >> Joanne Bulley, MD >> Keene, NH, USA >> >> "Love is indescribable and unconditional. >> I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it >> is." >> — Duke Ellington, American jazz artist (1899-1974). >> Next message: Andrew Folley: "Re: 50 yo & contraception" Previous message: Robert J. Carpenter, Jr. MD: "Re: Active management - third stage" In reply to: Marie Harkins: "Re: 50 yo & contraception" Next in thread: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: 50 yo & contraception"

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