Good for you! We were blessed with a beautiful daughter in 1985, and my wife decided to spoil her as a single child. OK, not really. My wife wasn’t exactly a helicopter parent, but a stay at home mom and daughter didn’t get away with anything.
Different families work out in different ways. My main point was that unless you’ve got a heart condition, diabetes, or some other major health problem, pregnancy over 40 is like pregnancy at 20: it might be miserable, it might be easy. My first pregnancy was the worst.
Ms. Bruni would have it easy no matter what her age: she’s not changing diapers, cooking, cleaning, shopping, leading Cub Scouts and a choir, teaching Sunday School, and doing six loads of laundry a day.