Playing With / Absurdly Elderly Mother

• Basic Trope: A woman who's too old to have a baby...does.
• Straight: Alice has a baby at the ripe old age of 65.
• Exaggerated: Alice has a baby at the ripe old age of 110.
• Downplayed: Alice gets pregnant at age 50.
• Justified: Alice thinks she's reached menopause, but because her periods are irregular, she gets pregnant.
  • It's a Mystical Pregnancy.
  • Alice got pregnant by taking hormones and using donor eggs.
  • Alice is pregnant with a lithopedion. The fetus died decades ago, but because it was an ectopic pregnancy, it calcified.
• Inverted:
  • Alice gets pregnant at the age of 12, before she's even had her first period yet.
  • Alice goes through early menopause.
• Subverted: Alice is carrying a lithopedion.
  • Alice thinks she can't possibly be pregnant because she's a virgin.
  • Alice is raising her grandchild.
  • Alice gets pregnant at the age of 38. She's still having periods.
  • The pregnancy test was someone else's.
  • Alice freezes her eggs or a sliver of ovarian tissue at age 22.
  • Alice is Really 700 Years Old, but has the body of a teenage girl.
• Double Subverted: The lithopedion was discovered when she went in for what she thought was a tumor, and it's been there since she was 60. (She's 80 now.)
  • She's 70, and her last period was 20 years ago.
  • Or, that's what she tells people. In actuality, she gave birth at the age of 64, and was worried about what people would think.
  • In a setting where women tend to go through menopause sooner than most women in Real Life do.
    • Alternatively, because Alice is considered an "older mom," she's monitored more, and her medical chart says she's in for supervision of a "geriatric pregnancy."
    • Alternatively, Alice believed herself to have gone through early menopause at the age of 32.
  • The doctor gives Alice a pregnancy test on a hunch, and sure enough, it's positive, even though Alice is well past menopause.
  • She decides to use the frozen eggs at age 45 to make a baby.
  • Her species, however, normally stops being capable of reproduction around 250 years old.
    • Alternatively, it's in violation of the Immortal Procreation Clause.
• Parodied: Alice gives birth to her daughter, who's pregnant with her daughter, and so on.
• Zig-Zagged: Women give birth at different ages.
• Averted: Alice never becomes pregnant.
  • Alice gets pregnant at age 25.
  • World of No Grandparents
• Enforced: The actress playing Alice is too old to look plausibly below 35, and there's no budget for makeup or digital deaging, so Alice has to be an implausibly elderly mother.
• Lampshaded: "But...that's impossible...I'm 80 years old!"
• Invoked: Alice never had a child, and goes to a fertility clinic to make that happen with donor eggs, or with eggs she froze when she was younger.
  • Alice goes to see the neighborhood witch, who gives her a potion that will make her conceive.
  • Alice thinks she's officially done with her reproductive lifespan, but finds out that that's not the case.
• Exploited: A fertility clinic plays to women's fears related to running out of time in which to have a baby, and promises that they can make even women too old to have children do exactly that.
• Defied: Alice doesn't want to be pregnant that late in life, so she doesn't seek out fertility treatments, and continues to use birth control until at least a year after what she thinks is her last period.
  • The Powers That Be understand that pregnancies that late in life are much riskier for both mother and fetus, and only bestow mystical pregnancies on younger women and girls.
  • "A baby at 50? Lady, you don't need a geneticist, you need a psychiatrist!"
• Discussed: Alice and her friends have a conversation about women having babies at an older age. They discuss the risks, the societal expectations, and the various methods available for women to conceive later in life. They share personal stories, concerns, and opinions on the topic.
• Conversed: In an unrelated situation, characters in a TV show or movie discuss the trope of older women having babies. They mention famous examples, discuss the implications, and debate whether it's realistic or acceptable in different circumstances. The conversation serves as a commentary on the trope itself and its portrayal in media.
• Deconstructed: The baby dies at birth, and Alice's advanced age is cited as the main reason.
  • Alternatively, it's Alice who dies.
  • Alice is far too old to raise a child, and she finds herself unable to give him/her attention.
• Reconstructed: Alice gives the baby to her granddaughter, who is herself a young mother and is very capable of handling another kid.