For the first time in recorded Canadian history, mothers over 40 are officially having more kids than teens are.“Bridget Jones’s Baby.” Oscar® winners Renée Zellweger and Colin Firth tifie joined by Patrick Dempsey for the next chapter of the world’s favourite singleton who finds herself unexpectedly expecting. , the character will happen to be 40 years old. This is not unrealistic.
Indeed, while teenage pregnancy has fallen due to later marriages and better contraception since the 1960s, older women are delaying pregnancy for the sake of work or better lives. The recently adopted medical term is “mothers of advanced maternal age,” although Schroll says doctors still refer to them as women with “geriatric pregnancies.” “We find it hilarious,” says Schroll. “It makes you feel like [you need] a walker and a cane.
Along with celebrities including Celine Dion, Tina Fey and Halle Berry, who all gave birth after 40, the highly educated represent a primary clientele for ART. “Academics have a low fertility rate because we spend a lot of time in graduate school,” says Rachel Margolis, a professor of sociology at the University of Western Ontario. “I know quite a lot of people who have tried [ART]. There’s not very much taboo on this.
I would look at the demographic data on this one.
Nothing wrong with that..
And the older you are the greater chance that things might creep in terms of prob's. So with that stat are hospitals seeing more babies with genetic abnormalities or other prob's?
Thank God for that! I was beginning to think that with most Canadians were satisfied with the Federal & Provincial Government screwing us. Canada cdnpoli pregnancy
Not good news.
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