Meet the mum defying the odds of science | 60 Minutes Australia

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Imagine the shock, 50 years old and staring down at two blue lines on a pregnancy test. When Anthea Byrnes first started feeling a tad off colour she put it down to menopause. After all, at her age, conceiving a child the old fashioned way is a two-million-to-one shot. It's also high risk. Anthea's was a horror pregnancy with so many problems and complications that her doctor doubted she'd go the distance. It was a nail-biting countdown to the big day and Michael Usher was there with Anthea and husband Peter for all the ups and downs.
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