Posted on 05/02/2021 4:09:07 AM PDT by C19fan
One of the UK’s top fertility experts has hit out at older celebrity mothers who ‘mislead’ women into thinking having a baby in their 40s is easy.
In March, BBC presenter Christine Lampard, 42, became the latest in a line of famous faces to give birth in their 40s, following the likes of Nicole Kidman, Madonna and Halle Berry. In 2016, singer Janet Jackson announced she was pregnant just a few weeks before her 50th birthday, and gave birth to a healthy boy in January 2017.
But Dr Geeta Nargund, consultant gynaecologist at London’s St George’s Hospital and a fertility pioneer, has urged women not to delay starting a family in order to avoid a raft of age-related complications.
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And helped suppress wages by doubling the workforce.
Feminism was a complete disaster.
My Mum was 37 when i was born...2 years later she had my kid brother...
Depends on your definition of feminism.
To my mind there have been 3 incarnations...
1) Equality of opportunity.
2) Equality of outcome.
3) Men are the scum of the universe. Get rid of them.
I’m of the first go around. And while I think a parent, either parent, staying home with kids is ideal, it’s not always possible.
As to waiting longer in life...
Sometimes you can wait too long, and even better living through chemistry can’t help.
And waiting longer means you’re likely to be less a parent and more a grandparent. Age does take a toll.
And there’s a lot in addition to Feminism II and III to blame.
No fault divorce, societal acceptance of adultery, shacking up, single parenthood by choice.
Cultural rot.
I feel for young adults now. We’ve left them a mess.
Questions, questions...
Were you her first child?
Why did she wait to have children?
Is that just how it worked out?
Just wondering
People have really bought into women’s lib. All girls are taught to put off marriage and pursue jobs/careers. Population statistics show a fertility decline in human females starting at age 25. Women need to know that.
I was the 4th
She didnt wait...
She was 27 when she got married...Dad was 31...
“And there’s a lot in addition to Feminism II and III to blame.
No fault divorce, societal acceptance of adultery, shacking up, single parenthood by choice.
Cultural rot.
I feel for young adults now. We’ve left them a mess.”
I certainly agree with all of this.
Ahhh, all questions answered.
My wife was 32 when she had our boys. Until she met me she hadn’t met anyone she wanted to have children with.
It was the second marriage for us both.
I’ve known people who have had later life “surprise” babies.
My paternal grandparents met later in life than usual. They were in their 30’s when my dad, first of four, was born.
My maternal grandparents were another matter.
Grandpa Charles was 40 when he married granny Clara who was 20. Seems like every two years granny Clara gave birth to a child until they had 10 children. My mom was the baby and grandpa was 60 and granny 40 when she was born.
Doubtless there would have been more children but granny had leukemia and died 11 years later.
I never knew her but she must have been one tough old gal.
All well-stated, mewzilla. Even no fault murder.
There are a lot of factors involved in fertility, and it’s difficult to do any real research as opposed to just crunching numbers using vital-stats data.
I had my first baby at 24 and my 10th at 45. Historically, this is not that unusual, although societal nutrition levels have affected the average fertile years in certain times and places.
The vast majority of women can get pregnant in their 40’s without any help from fertility doctors. So many women I’ve known have had children up into their late 40’s, much to the surprise of them and their husbands.
Yes, women can have kids into their late 30’s (my mom also had me late). The point, though, is that the probability of bearing a healthy child drops sharply after mid 30s, and becomes very low by mid 40s.
Women’s bodies are at peak for having children in their 20s. One major cause of the Western middle class’s low fertility is from delaying marriage into the women’s 30s.
Women don’t want to hear it, but their attractiveness peaks in their early 20s. If they are not attracting the kind of man they want at 24, things are unlikely to be better at 34.
Women have an easier time bearing children in their later years, if they have already had kids earlier.
Many of the moms I knew (when I was raising children) did the same: They started having children in their 20’s and continued into their 40’s. Other moms started in their 30’s and continued into their late 40’s. And a few others started in their 40’s. None of them used fertility doctors. Most were surprised by their pregnancies.
FWIW... my paternal Grandmother was in her early 30’s when she married and had her first child. She was 50 when she had my Dad. Her oldest son was in college when his baby brother was born. Fertility, in my opinion, may be something inherited like blue eyes or curly hair. I agree some women have fertility issues and may have problems after a certain age. However, I think they may also be the same women who had issues getting pregnant to begin with. IMHO.
Mom was 17.
Dad was 22.
Never asked…
I had my first 3 kids at ages 28, 31 & 34. Then I had 4 miscarriages, the first at age 37 & then 3 in 13 months when I was 41/42. So I could get pregnant easily but keeping it was the problem. Of course, I have a uterine abnormality (incomplete uterine septum & heart-shaped uterus), so I’m lucky I was able to carry my first 3 babies to term in the first place!
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