At the age of 72, Jenny Brown wants to be a mother for the first time.

Jenny Brown

Seventy-two year old Jenny Brown has spent almost $50,000 in the U.S and Italy trying to conceive a child, and is now prepared to travel abroad to clinics that will offer IVF treatment to a woman her age.

Although he has never had a long-term relationship, the elderly woman is determine to give birth, and if she successful, she will become the oldest woman in the world to give birth.

Critics of the elderly woman say she is old enough to be a child’s great grandmother and could leave a child an orphan as an infant, but Brown, who tried IVF seven times before, said, “Any mother can die at any age.”

“I hope to live to 100,” Brown said.  “But I’ll ask one of my younger friends to be a guardian in case.  People ask me how a child would feel having a mother of my age.  I hope they’ll find it special.  I’ll tell them I tried for a long time, and how wonderful it was to have them.”

Brown, who lives in London, said she always wanted children but when she was younger, she focused on her education and her career.

“I’d always had it in the back of my mind that when the time was right I’d like to have a child,” she said.  “But my studies meant that children kept getting delayed.  The right time finally came in my early fifties and since then I’ve been attempting and failing with IVF.

Brown said she never got married because saw too many of her friends marriages fail and decided to stay single and raise a child herself.

Twenty years ago, Brown advertised for a sperm donor, and attempted to use her eggs, but doctors told her because of her age, her eggs had deteriorated.

Since Brown does not want to use a surrogate, she is appealing to women between the ages of 20 and 35 for their eggs.

She said, “It is important that I carry the baby myself because I believe that even if I get pregnant with a donated egg I will pass genetic material on to the baby while I carry it in the womb.  I believe the baby will look more like me that way.”

Brown has now decided to try her luck at clinics in Bulgaria, Romania, Spain and India, where a woman recently became the world’s oldest mother of IVG twins at 70.