Post-menopause babies: Aged women can start having babies again, claim scientists

Women could start having babies post- menopause after medics claim to reversed its affects on fertility.
A team of researchers say they have found a way to restart periods by rejuvenating ovaries to release fertile eggs.
They claim the technique even worked on a woman who had not menstruated in five years.
The researchers say they have successfully fertilised two eggs using her husband’s sperm and the embryos are now on ice before they are implanted in her uterus.
Another 30 women who want children have had the treatment, which is said to have worked in two-thirds of cases.
Konstantinos Sfakianoudis, a gynaecologist at the Greek fertility clinic Genesis Athens said of the breakthrough: “It offers a window of hope that menopausal women will be able to get pregnant using their own genetic material.”

Fertility is thought to peak in the women’s early 20s then dwindle around the age of 50 when most experience the menopause.
It also comes early – before the age of 40 – for around 1 per cent of women, either because of a medical condition or certain cancer treatments.
But the team found ovaries can be restarted with a blood treatment used to help wounds heal faster called Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) which helps trigger growth of tissue and blood vessels.
When injected into older ovaries it was found to restart menstrual cycles, allowing the team to collect and fertilise eggs released, according to the New Scientist.
It is thought more studies will be done before it is truly known how affective the treatment is.
Roger Sturmey at Hull York Medical School in the UK said: “It is potentially quite exciting. But it also opens up ethical questions over what the upper age limit of mothers should be.”
He added: “Where would the line be drawn?"