Wow! That is really all I can say. I guess it really isn’t ever too late. It’s hard to tell for sure, but she looks pretty good for a 62 year old mother of 12, grandmother of 20, great grandmother of three. I just found another story online that says that in addition to being diabetic, she has been blind since birth.
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Wulf is used to defying the odds. Blind since birth, she was a synchronised swimmer in high school, worked as a piano and organ saleswoman and developed a passion for cooking.
Wulf said on Friday that she considers her late-in-life pregnancy a groundbreaking act for older women.
âAge is a number. Youâre as old as you feel,â? she said. â?Every time you revolutionise something or you do something different, thereâs going to be naysayers.â?
Fourteen years older than her husband. I think that’s about the same age difference between my Mom and step dad. They also live in Redding. I hope this doesn’t give them any ideas….
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REDDING, Calif. – A 62-year-old woman gave birth Friday to a healthy 6-pound, 9-ounce baby boy, becoming one of the oldest women in the world to successfully bear a child.
Janise Wulf gave birth to her 12th child. She is also a grandmother of 20 and a great-grandmother of three.
Family members said the delivery went smoothly, despite earlier concerns about the mother’s health. Wulf, a diabetic, experienced swelling and higher blood pressure earlier this week, prompting doctors to perform the Caesarean section a week early.
Wulf and her third husband, Scott, 48, named the red-haired boy Adam Charles Wulf. He follows just 3 1/2 years behind his older brother, Ian.
“I hate to raise one alone, without a sibling,” said Wulf, who was impregnated both times through in vitro fertilization.
The oldest woman on record to give birth is a 66-year-old Adriana Iliescu of Romania, who had a Caesarean section Jan. 15, 2005.
The Guinness Book of World Records also lists two 63-year-old women who have given birth: Rosanna Della Corte of Italy in 1994 and Acheli Keh of California in 1996. News reports, however, list Della Corte’s age at 62 when she gave birth.