Midlife Mothers

How old is too old to have a baby?

With older women, the desire for a baby is great. Their heart is in it, they are socio-economically well off, and their careers are in a better place to take off plenty of time. The have intention to love a child, the money to do it and the time to devote to it.

The example set by more and more women becoming pregnant for the first or second time at age thirty-five, forty five, or fifty is changing the attitude about midlife pregnancy, but also about age in general. The biological clock is simply not what it used to be. They might have been referred to as elderly, geriatric or senescent from the obstetrical point of view, but they are now barely middle-aged. Now age 35 is young, 40 is not middle aged it is more like 60 for middle aged.

How old is too old to have a baby? It was always thought that women of these ages were set in their ways, sedentary & just too old to reproduce. Women who are getting pregnant later in life are neither set in their ways nor sedentary, at least not after their babies are born. The truth is known most of these women are flexible, energetic and adapting to their new role as a midlife parent with admirable, resourcefulness. Frequently women who choose to become pregnant in midlife feel that midlife is the best time to have a baby; they are more emotionally mature, confident, & financially stable than they were in their 20’s & 30’s.

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