14-10-2008, 18:20
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Re: women, age and pregnancy
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Originally Posted by MargaretR
I became a granny at 42 and so was useful to my family without much effort.(I had my son early 20s -he had his first early 20s ie 20+20=40)
Some of my friends who are in their mid 60s like me, are doing what I did in my 40s and early 50s, and it is seriously exhausting them.
The next generation of grannies will be in their 80s if this trend for late births continues.
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Exactly so. My mother was in her 40s when she had me through no choice of her own and I had my two a lot later than I would have wanted, again not by choice with the result that neither of them have ever really known their grandparents. My mother died before Em was born and the other 3 had already died before Mimi was born. It's not a situation I would willingly choose.
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