It’s a miracle: Characters who had gave late in life births

[titan1978]

Well his face certainly used to move.

[pdm1974]

Rachel on AW takes the cake in my opinion on this. Mid-50s at least...she was pregnant with TWINS while also having a possible cancerous tumor in her uterus that couldn't be operated on because it would kill the twins. Then, she gave birth to the babies by cesarean section with no pain killers on top of a coffee table in the middle of a hurricane. The twins were delivered by Dr. Shane Roberts who had previously been Bobby Reno, race car driver. It was all downright comical! And then once she had the twins they were barely mentioned or seen.

[titan1978]

 

Also- women with money have later in life babies quite a bit.  They can afford the health costs and support raising their children.  I mean, Janet Jackson was close to 50 when she had her child.

Wha?  This happened that late in the show’s run?  That is a lot to get past.

[pdm1974]

Exactly! I could sorta kinda buy the CJ pregnancy if Sally was late 40's in the story. But, when she was trying to get pregnant by Jack....that ship had long sailed!!

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It was in the last couple of years of the show. I could have maybe bought one baby minus the cancer and hurricane birth. Her son Jamie had to be pushing 40 himself.

[jam6242]

Addie was supposed to be 50ish.  She thought she was starting menopause when she had her first pregnancy symptoms.  I’d be surprised if any soap character would mention menopause these days.

[kalbir]

Y&R established Ashley's age close to ED's so Ashley would have been 40/41 in 2000 when Abby was born, 43/44 in 2003 when baby Robert died, and 49/50 in 2009 when she miscarried.

[Antoyne]

Was Addie older than Doug?

[soapfan770]

Sward did a really great job with it, although I think what helped was too was she wasn’t much older in real life than those playing her kids (Patricia Bruder much lol?) and don’t know how old any of them were maybe they all stayed in that ageless vortex Tom Hughes was in LOL. I’ll assume Lyla was her in late 40’s while all the kids were in their late 20’s; although going back to Lyla’s earlier days I think the was mentioned her sister Maggie was suppose to be much younger since Maggie had a relationship with Tom. Sheesh!
 

Interestingly a few years later the show would go down the surrogate route with Emily for Larry and Susan to have Allison as Susan was indeed post-menopause by that point.

[carolineg]

 

yes Addie was older than Doug.  It was definitely a cougar relationship lol

[amybrickwallace]

 

Yes, it happened in summer 1997. A few weeks later, the babies were baptized in Victoria Wyndham's 25th anniversary tribute episode.

[SoapDope]

I thought Sue Ellen and J.R. on Dallas looked too old to have a child the age of John Ross. Linda Gray and Larry Hagman had teenage children in real life at the time (1978-79).

Valene on Knots Landing giving birth to the Baaaaaabies in her 40's.

 

 

 

 

 

[tune_in_tomorrow]

I swear I will never understand the fascination soaps had/have with reproducing, especially "late in the game." What was the purpose of 50ish Rachel giving birth especially when everyone knew AW was running on fumes? She already had 3 kids they could give storylines to, plus the show had aged Amanda's daughter, hadn't it? Was there nothing else they could have Rachel do? It just shows how lazy soaps have been for years. 

[Antoyne]

Was that unheard of for Daytime at the time? It’s interesting that she was older than Doug, and Doug had quite a few years on Julie. I’d love to see this triangle.

Edited June 3, 2020 by Antoyne

[EllenP]

I hated Reva’s post-menopausal baby for a lot of reasons, 1) the menopause story had been huge storyline in 2005-06 as part of Reva’s character development and earned KZ her Emmy 2) the baby was Jeffrey’s (eww) 3) it was also part of a weird cancer recurrence arc that made no sense. That baby was unneeded and how weird for the show to end by insinuating Josh became his dad.

[Paul Raven]

Marge Bergman on SFT gave birth to Tom around 1967. Melbae Rae was 50 at the time so Marge would have been around the same age.