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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My wife was in her early forties when she had Baby Chan. Three years later, she and he remain practically perfect in every way.
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Excellent post. Imho, after the death of their son not so long ago, it seems that one can see the Hand of God in this.