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It's a confusing term as well, as geriatric, even when it comes to technical terms ("geriatric medicine") tends to refer to actual seniors and the elderly.

• lotsofpulp 4y ago
  Descriptions are usually relative. Obviously, a 65+ year old cannot get pregnant, so logically, geriatric pregnancy must mean a pregnancy at the older end of the ages that it is possible to be pregnant.
  • rs999gti 4y ago
    There have been cases where older women can still gestate a baby. Here's a story of a grandmother birthing her own grandchild. https://people.com/human-interest/grandmother-gave-birth-son-daughter-in-law-baby-never-felt-more-loved-by-husband/ https://people.com/human-interest/grandmother-gave-birth-son...
  • Apocryphon 4y ago
    But that is not what geriatric means, neither in the layman definition nor in the medical definition. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/geriatric https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/geriatric https://www.health.harvard.edu/d-through-i#G-terms https://www.health.harvard.edu/d-through-i#G-terms https://openmd.com/define?q=geriatrics https://openmd.com/define?q=geriatrics