A 50-year-old woman became a first-time mom — and her 61-year-old husband a full-time dad — after she gave birth to a baby girl via C-section earlier this fall.
Susie and Tony Troxler of High Point, North Carolina had been trying to conceive since getting married 13 years ago, but had no luck for over a decade — but after turning to egg donation and IVF, Susie delivered Lily Antonia Troxler on September 29.
In a Cone Health release Susie said, “It was so surreal.” It was a moment that had been waiting for. It’s hard to wrap our heads around — we’re no longer just husband and wife, we’re “mommy” and “daddy.”‘

Susie, 50, and Tony Troxler, 61, of High Point, North Carolina welcomed Lily Antonia Troxler via a scheduled C-section on September 29

They had been trying to conceive since getting married 13 years ago. Because they were raised in a family that didn’t talk about IVF, it was natural for them to try.
Susie was in her 30s, Tony in his 40s, when they married. They quickly attempted to have children, believing it would not be a problem.
She said that she assumed they would have a child when we married. However, it did not happen. Good Morning America interviewed her.
But we both are very old-school. When we grew up nobody talked or even discussed IVF. [in-vitro fertilization]. This was not even possible.
She never even discussed it with a doctor until three years ago, when she went to a new OBGYN for a checkup — and was asked a question she’d neve been asked before.
Dr. Harraway Smith asked her, “Is it anything else?” “Is there anything else?” she asked. ‘If she hadn’t asked that question, then this baby probably wouldn’t be here.’

Three years ago she went to see a new OBGYN for a checkup. She was asked questions about her health and she mentioned that she wanted to have children.

Tony and she started IVF, and they then switched to egg donation after the embryos were dead.
‘I was disappointed to hear her say that no one had ever queried them or given them their options for fertility,’ Dr. Carolyn Harraway-Smith said.
Dr. Harraway-Smith knew that because of Susie’s age, they had a ‘short window’ to make a pregnancy happen, so she sent her to an reproductive endocrinologist.
That doctor diagnosed with fibroids, muscular tumors on the wall of her uterus that are usually benign. Susie was able to have them removed by surgery. But she was told that natural conception would not be possible.
They tried IVF but failed.The embryos were viable. Next, they turned to egg donation, with the first embryo transfer in late 2019 — but unfortunately, it did not take.
The pandemic put their plans on hold, but in February of this year, they transferred their last viable embryo — and it worked.

The new parent experience is described by them as “surreal” and they insist, “We knew that no matter how it turned out, it was going be a great one.”

“Kids arrive when they are supposed to, no matter how old their parents are. It is just how it was supposed to be. She’s our miracle baby,’ Susie said
Susie had a ‘pretty uneventful’ pregnancy, ending in a scheduled C-section on September 29, during which she hummed a gospel song.
Tony stated in a press release that he knew one day he would have children. ‘We wouldn’t give up. That faith was ours. She was our dream. It would happen no matter what.
GMA was told by he that he still stares at her. “She had me wrapped around her pinky fingers before she was born.”
Lily, who they refer to as their “little warrior princess”, is smiling already.
Susie said, “It’s really really, really, truly surreal.” “I had been single, and I was a wife, but the thought of becoming a mother hasn’t hit me yet,’ Susie said.
“I am a firm believer that children will come when they should, regardless of their parent’s age. This is how we see it. “She’s our miracle child,” she said.