Women in late 30's/early 40's who say they want kids


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nightling is offline nightling Post #71  November 24,2009, 2:39pm
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I'm not sure what your gyn means by "many," but I can only assume that it's "only a small proportion." There have always been the rare "change" babies, but is your gyn honestly saying that it's typical for women to be able to become pregnant without any kind of fertility treatment when they are in their 50s? How can that happen if they are post-menopausal (as most women are by their early to mid-fifties)? Even though it's possible for some (and I didn't say that it wasn't), it would be quite foolish for a woman to assume that she can delay childbearing until after 50 and then become pregnant...

Looking at the data from the National Center for Health Statistics, in 2006, for example, there were only 494 total live births to women aged 50-54 (out of more than 4 million births that year), and only 127 of those were first born children. And those numbers include all live births, not just those that resulted from unassisted pregnancies.

Of course most women over age 50 don't want to become pregnant and have a child (including some of those who actually did) and the number of births is only a proxy measure of fertility. Nonetheless, there is no question that having a baby after age 50, especially without fertility treatments of some kind -- particularly a first child -- is by far the exception to the rule.
I can give you the number of the gynecologist if you want to argue with him.
 
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neardc is offline neardc Post #72  November 24,2009, 3:10pm
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nightling wrote :
I can give you the number of the gynecologist if you want to argue with him.
Nahhh....Just have him draft a response (with citations to the literature) that you can post here...lol.
 
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