Patricia Rashbrook: How she became Britain’s oldest mom

Now, years later, a devastating update has surfaced… and it’s the news no one wanted to hear.

In 2006, images flooded the media — pictures of a 62-year-old woman cradling a newborn. She looked like any loving grandmother, but the headlines told a different story. Dr. Patricia Rashbrook, a respected child psychologist, had just become a mother, making history as the oldest woman in the UK to give birth.

It was a story that stopped the world in its tracks.

But was was this a miracle of modern medicine or a reckless defiance of nature?

A controversial journey to motherhood

Patricia and her husband, John Farrant, from Lewes in East Sussex, had longed for a child together. Though Patricia already had three grown children from a previous marriage, she and John felt something was missing.

“From the moment I met John, it felt like there existed a baby-shaped space between us,” Patricia shared.