THE AGE OF THE FATHER KEN BIRNBAUM IS OF GREAT CONCERN 63 is MUCH TOO OLD BECAUSE OF SPERM DNA MUTATIONS FOR ONE THING

60-Year-Old Woman Who Just Gave Birth To Twin Boys Says, “Age Has Been Redefined”


The psychologist who gave birth to twin boys at age 60 said Thursday she was on a mission to let women know they have choices.

“It’s really basically about women and empowerment,” Frieda Birnbaum told NBC’s “Today” show.

Frieda Birnbaum, who underwent in-vitro fertilization last year at a South African clinic that specializes in older women, gave birth by Caesarean section on Tuesday at Hackensack University Medical Center.

“I don’t feel like I went through a lot of trauma during delivery or even through the process of being pregnant,” Frieda Birnbaum said.

The hospital said she was the nation’s oldest mother of twins.

“Age has been redefined,” Frieda Birnbaum said.

She and her husband, Ken, a New York City attorney, have been married for 38 years and have three other children — sons ages 33 and 6 and a daughter, 29.

The couple wanted another child closer in age to their youngest son, and Frieda Birnbaum’s husband said it was his idea for his wife to become pregnant instead of adopting.

“I couldn’t be happier about the way it worked out,” Ken Birnbaum told “Today.”

Their daughter has said she worries about Frieda Birnbaum taking care of the twins when they’re in their teens and she’s in her late 70s — concerns dismissed by Frieda Birnbaum on Thursday.

“I hope I’m a role model for my daughter, that when she gets older that she can make her own decisions based on who she is rather than what society dictates,” she said. (I think biology has something to do with it too…not just society!)

She said that people who consider new motherhood at her age inappropriate “need to get ready for what’s coming up in our society.”

The couple plan to take their sons home on Saturday.

(I may catch a lot of slack for this, but I think a woman choosing to have a child at 60 is incredibly selfish. I could see adopting at 60 a little differently, but for her to go out of her way to insist on having a child at 60 is bizarre. Sorry, but how is having children at 60 female empowerment!? It is simply female insanity! Women are not meant to have children at 60, as her having to go to a South African clinic for in-vitro fertilization attests.)

Oh well…..congratulations!

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