In today's NY Daily News:
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Frieda Birnbaum's new bouncing baby boys may be bundles of joy for the 60-year-old mom who gave birth yesterday, but they've got her grownup children hopping mad.
The New Jersey mom earned a place in the record books and the debate over fertility treatment by becoming the oldest American woman to give birth to twins.
"I think it's very natural and I'm very happy," the Saddle River psychologist told the Daily News after her C-section at Hackensack University Medical Center.
"I think that age is not a factor at all in this," the well-coiffed blond added. "I'm glad I did it."
The boys - named Jake and Jared - were delivered at noon. Each weighed 4 pounds, 11 ounces and was healthy.
New dad Ken, 63, a grandfatherly type with receding white hair, was thrilled. "He sort of pushed me in this direction," said his wife.
But her two grown kids - .Jason, 33, and Alana, 29 - are appalled.
"My mother is too old, for health reasons and for lifestyle," Alana said last night. "I don't think she's thinking about the future - being 80 or 90 and having a kid." She said her brother is worried they will end up taking care of the babies. "He's against it even more than I am," she said.
Alana said her mother initially kept the fertility treatments a secret. When her mother finally admitted it, there were some tense family arguments about it, but Alana said her mother said: "It's my life and it makes me happy."
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First, if it's so 'natural', she would not have had to buy eggs or freeze them from years before, she'd have made them when it was 'time' to conceive.
Second, if it's her life and makes her happy, why keep it a secret?
Great that she's happy, but it's not her that is the main issue, it's those babies. How selfish and vain can one person be?
Oh well, we can pontificate til the next blue moon, but it's done.
But someone needs to smack some sense into the next post-menopausal woman who walks into a fertility clinic....