Posted on 05/21/2010 6:23:03 PM PDT by inflorida
Perfect ‘birthing age’(for both parents) is 17 - 23, IMO.
I’m in my mid 30s myself, and have some small children. When I was 20, I was VERY MUCH more able to keep up with them. lol It doesn’t seem to phase my wife any. She could probably have 6 more, keep her 115lb body weight, and run after them just as she did when she was 19. She’s like a machine. lol
My mom had her last kid at 40 in 1959....my friends have had kids at 45......YEARS AGO!!
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60s for the mother and 70s for the father when the child is in his low teens. I hope they are in good health, are able to stay healthy, and have a healthy baby. The odds are against all three, but as Bill Cosby once said, “Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.”
Good for them.
My mother was 42 when she had my last sister. My dad was 62. From listening to older women talk about it there were not as many C-sections then either, even with breech births.
You are probably right, both in terms of the health of the child and its relationship with both parents.
Isn’t it risky to get pregnant at such an age? My wife, who is in healthcare and specializes in all things OBGYN says that after 35 years of age, it starts getting unsafe.This is part of the anti-life meme that the left spreads. While the risks rise with parental age, they rise at a very low rate. They want to screen for so called "chromosonal abnormalities" and then recommend abortion when they appear. The sad fact is that these so called "chromosonal abnormalities" exist far more often than actual fetal irregularities occur is never explained, in essence the false positives drive the very profitable abortion and baby parts trade. More, the ADVANTAGES of being an older parent are rarely discussed. See http://www.babycentre.co.uk/pregnancy/ref/ageandpregnancy/ for more information.
Amen to that!
God bless her. I wish I could have conceived at that age.
I wish them all the best !!
If she's 47, I'd say it's almost certainly from a donor egg.
I saw her many years ago in a movie called “Mischief”.
I don’t know anything about her except she was a stunning beauty.
I do hope everything goes well for them.
not me either, the fix to that problem is called hysterectomy...
My grandmother had 9 kids, the last one was born when she was 47.
He was 93 this past February. Late pregnancy are nothing new. Friends of my parents were 50 and 53 when their youngest child was born.
I wish the parents all the best.
When I was growing up it was nothing for the women in my community to have children into their forties. Catholics who didn’t practice birth control with families ranging in size from 6 to 15! Many women had children at the same time as their oldest children were starting their families. I have an aunt who is younger than my two oldest siblings.
At seven ours was a “small family”, lol.
| Age (years) | Frequency of Fetuses with Down Syndrome to Normal Fetuses at 16 weeks of pregnancy |
Frequency of Live Births of Babies with Down Syndrome to Normal Births |
|---|---|---|
| 15 - 19 | ---- | 1 / 1250 |
| 20 - 24 | ---- | 1 / 1400 |
| 25 - 29 | ---- | 1 / 1100 |
| 30 - 31 | ---- | 1 / 900 |
| 32 | ---- | 1 / 750 |
| 33 | 1 / 420 | 1 / 625 |
| 34 | 1 / 325 | 1 / 500 |
| 35 | 1 / 250 | 1 / 350 |
| 36 | 1 / 200 | 1 / 275 |
| 37 | 1 / 150 | 1 / 225 |
| 38 | 1 / 120 | 1 / 175 |
| 39 | 1 / 100 | 1 / 140 |
| 40 | 1 / 75 | 1 / 100 |
| 41 | 1 / 60 | 1 / 85 |
| 42 | 1 / 45 | 1 / 65 |
| 43 | 1 / 35 | 1 / 50 |
| 44 | 1 / 30 | 1 / 40 |
| 45 and older | 1 / 20 | 1 / 25 |
My grandmother had my mother at 45, my hubby’s mother had him at 48. I had my first at almost 39 years and then two more in my forties...and all that estrogen has kept me young. My oldest is being recruited by Harvard and Princeton.
If you are a woman and you want babies, start taking the generic prenatals you can buy at the grocery store before you start trying...and eat sweet potatoes (zap one in the microwave for lunch) several times a week - nature’s fertility drug and you don’t have to worry about getting cancer from it later.
Happens all the time. My own parents were well into their 40’s when I was born. I’m as healthy as can be.
Uhhh..... There must be a different solution for me.
After the age of 35, the odds of Down Syndrome goes from being 1 in 1,300 to 1 out of 400. After the age of 45, it goes to being 1 in 100. THAT'S BAD!!! Those are solid statistics. It isn't subjective.
It has nothing to do with abortion. Statistically, after a woman reaches a certain age, bad things tend to happen. Anyone that wants to have children should do so while they are in their LATE teens to mid 20s anyway. As I said earlier, that's when folks are best equipped to handle it, both mentally and physically. I've known some people that have had children into their late 30s-early 40s that went well, but it's risky.... Not to mention, they are going to be old, and nodding off at their kid's high school graduation.
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