Posted on 05/21/2010 6:23:03 PM PDT by inflorida
Would someone care to present supporting evidence of this assertion?
20-25 IMO for women and add 5 more for men. Get them over with!
But, 22 biologically, for women I remember reading. Let’s not forget that at 47 the odds that the child will have problems (downs for one) are way up there,
You mean in her 70s, don’t you? She’s 57 and she’ll be 70 when the child is 13.
Well said. I hear this crap with every over-40 pregnancy.
When “risky” means (yes, I'm broad-brushing here for the sake of making a point) that the odds of a certain complication or two increase from 1-in-1200 to 1-in-480, I still don't get the semantics.
There's a 479-1 chance nothing is wrong and it's “risky?” Interesting perspective, IMHO.
“Riskier” than at 25? Sure.
“Risky?” Boy, that's a stretch.
Slight hyperbole to make my point, but you get what I mean. Any excuse to advance an anti-life agenda.
Best wishes to all of them. I was 42 when Frank was born, and it’s entirely possible I’ll have more children. Most women in their mid-40s could have children, if they chose.
lol my daughter gave birth at 40...best thing she ever did for me...i am sure that kid will be loved.
lol I know what gender you are....:O)
I totally agree. My wife and I started when she was 19, and I was 21. I'm now in my mid-30s and we had our last one a year and a half ago. With work and everything else going on, it really takes it our of you. MUCH easier when you're younger.
Downs syndrome is still a very low risk and it isn’t the end of the world to have a special needs child, is it?
wow~
good news/bad news scenario. I wish for them the best. I have loved JT in movies for decades. Know his personal life is crazy at best. May they find God & embrace him along this journey called life
That’s a common misconception. My wife specializes in OB/GYN as well. It doesn’t really get unsafe, the risk factors just go up. At no point do they actually become unfavorable. Trisomy 21 is a perfect example. Worst case scenario is 1 in 25 chance of having a child with trisomy 21. Any gambler will tell you that 25:1 is as close to a sure thing as you’ll get. The risk is there, but the odds are heavily in favor of a healthy baby.
It’s all in the parsing of the numbers. Explained as I did above, it doesn’t sound bad. 25:1, not bad odds. Or you could send an expectant mother of advanced maternal age into a panic by telling her that her chances of having a trisomy 21 child are 56 times higher than they were at 21. Which is also true.
Freeper men all over the country are now clearing the house of sweet potatoes.
Thanks. I'll own up to my error. However, if you take my statement as it was written, I really do not want a teenager living at home when I am in my 60s, let alone my 70s.
I’m curious what they’ll do if they find out something is the matter with the baby. IF there is a miscarriage, will it be real or something else?
I had a great aunt who had a set of twins at 55yo. The twins are my Mother’s age and both were normal and were concieved naturally in about 1940.
Late in life pregnancy were not that unusual in our grandparents time. Don’t know why it’s such a big deal now.
Half of all women who are 50 are still fertile.
How great is that? Good for them and all the best.
Just wait until I inform my hubby what he has been feeding me every week. I kid you not everytime he goes to the store he brings sweet potatoes home to roast on the grill.
Well, I’m 63, and I intend to find a wife fairly soon and have at least two children over the next three or four years. As Stallone says in “Balboa,” “You shouldn’t have to stop living just because somebody else thinks you’ve had too many birthdays.”
My Granddad Marciano lived to be 99 years and 10 months. And I think he only died then because he was tired of putting up with the rest of us.
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