Missouri woman slams trolls who say her mother, 51, too old for seventh baby, conceived by IVF

A daughter whose mother had her seventh child at 51, 35 years after her first baby, has slammed trolls who criticized her choices.

Kayla Caldwell, 33, from St. Louis, Missouri, documented her mother Kimberly Chasteen’s pregnancy on TikTok after she had successful IVF treatment with donor eggs and sperm, at a cost of $35,000. 

However, one of her videos, which racked up more than 1.3 million views, attracted a swathe of negative comments from viewers who said that her mother was too old to have another child.    

Her daughter responded to trolls, saying that her mother is really content after having baby Tyrique on March 17.

Kimberly first tied her tubes at 20 after her first three children but reversed the operation at 30 to welcome three more kids.  

After this, the grandmother underwent another tubal litigation at 34 only to reverse the operation in 2019 after meeting a younger man.

The relationship didn’t work out, but, Kimberley still dreamt of having a seventh child and dedicated the next three years to falling pregnant.

Addressing the critics, Kayla said: ‘To all the haters of my mom having a baby at 51… She is so happy!’

Later in the footage, she shared the negative messages she’d received, including one that said her mother was ‘out of her mind’. 

Another added: ’51 seriously. I wish people would stop having babies after going through menopause.’ 

Meanwhile a separate comment read: ‘You will probably be caring for your sibling one day.’

And another person wrote: ‘Jesus. 51? Why????’

Weighing in on the video, a further commenter said: ‘This is so irresponsible for literally everyone involved.’

A different person wrote: ‘That’s so risky! How’s she gonna have energy to play with children even?’

And another commenter said: ‘Why? Poor baby’

But not everyone was so negative about Kayla’s mother’s decision to have a child at the age of 51.

One person wrote: ‘So lucky for your sweet boys’ while another said: ‘Lovely.’

A delighted fellow commenter said: ‘He’s perfect’ and another added: ‘A woman’s body decides, not society!

‘You have one life, live it for yourself!’

‘I am 45 trying to have another baby. This gives me hope,’ one person wrote, to which Kayla replied: ‘She did IVF.’

‘My friend was told she could never have a baby.. she had a healthy boy at the age of 50,’ another added, ‘Congratulations momma.’

Speaking previously about her pregnancy and birth, Kimberly, who is a nurse’s assistant, said: ‘When I read some of the horrible comments, it hurt my heart and I cried. 

‘Kayla said that she could take them down, but I told her that people are entitled to their own opinions and it’s just ugliness and if they choose to be ugly that’s on them.

‘Some of them can be pretty gnarly and ugly, like I know there was one person who said that I was going to have fun chasing him around in a trailer.’

Kimberly explained that she ‘didn’t give up on the dream of having another child’ after her relationship wiht a younger man in her 40s broke down. 

‘It’s been a really rough journey; I’ve spent about $35,000 and went through a lot.

‘Trying to find a doctor who would even sign off on it for my age when was hard.

After suffering a placenta abruption at 32 weeks, Kimberly’s lucky charm Tyrique entered the world, with her six children excited to meet their new baby brother.

She said: ‘My kids are very bonded and love each other very much, they won’t say that Tyrique isn’t their biological brother, they’ll say, “He’s my brother”.

‘They have a lot of love in their hearts and are really great kids, I’m very fortunate that they have each other. I’m blessed.