Minn. A woman's giving birth to triplets at age 54 without the aid of fertility drugs may have been an amazing feat, but it sent shudders through the hearts of many of the nation's 50 million baby boomers. Many woman approaching age 50 have grown comfortable in the knowledge that they no longer have to fear accidental pregnancy. Then along comes the Yakima, Wash., grandmother Arcelia Garcia and her triplets.
Countless women read the story with mouths agape.
I dearly enjoy my kids, but I'm on the downhill side of my life. No, say experts such as Ted Nagel, director of the Division or Reproductive Endocrinology at the University of Minnesota . It's just a rare phenomenon. It's pretty amazing, though. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, more than 3.8 million babies were born in the United States during 1997.