By Marna Gatlin, Founder, Parents Via Egg Donation (PVED). A growing number of women are seeking to get pregnant after 40 and—for many—this means taking the path of finding a suitable egg donor. There are many reasons for delayed motherhood. Some of us wait for Mr. or Mrs. Right. Some of us never find him [...]
Welcome to our first Guest Blog Month at FlowerPowerMom.com. Since late 2011, we’ve seen a real shift in media and public attention towards the subject of motherhood after 40 or even 50. The public has often had an intense response to media coverage that is sometimes limited in its scope information on the subject. Growing [...]
Yesterday, AARP broadcast a long awaited program on “Inside E-Street” for PBS television, titled “Babies @50″. Lynn Laszewski—from our “A Child After 40” online community—who had her son at 51, kicks off the program with her story. After Laszewski, I was interviewed on controversial social issues, including maternal ageism, and the rising need for FPM’s [...]
Yesterday, Dr. Oz dedicated a program to the topic, “When Are You Too Old To Have A Baby?” FlowerPowerMom.com was invited to write web content in support of this show, and I focused on deeply rooted cultural issues that have a negative, or even hostile, impact on midlife mothers and need more exposure: “Why Are [...]
Coping with the hormonal roller coaster of perimenopause, while raising young children, is a subject almost too hot to handle. According to a new book—Eat To Defeat Menopause—The Essential Nutrition Guide for a Healthy Midlife, by Karen Gilbin and Mache Seibel, MD—the onset of “the change” can feel like “a raging case of PMS.” I [...]
You could win one of six books we have to give away by posting your comment about motherhood after 40 on this blog. Just scroll down and tell us which book you’d like to win and why. BOOK 1: THREE WISHES: A True Story of Good Friends, Crushing Heartbreak, and Astonishing Luck on Our Way [...]
This week, one of Canada’s leading newspapers published a series of articles on the ongoing controversy over later motherhood. In “Motherhood after 40: Ethical debate rages over how old is too old to become a mother,” Wendy Gillis from the Toronto Star interviewed Canadian fertility specialists, academics from Women’s Studies and bioethics, some real “mid-life [...]
Every year, thousands of television viewers wax nostalgic over the fat Christmas goose Mr. Scrooge generously dispatches to the house of Bob Cratchit on Christmas morning. Yet, I’ll lay ten turkeys on a wager if that goose ended up at their house instead, it would receive an entirely different sort of welcome. The notion of [...]
Social trends and advances in reproductive science have led women to have “false optimism” about getting pregnant later in life, according to a new set of guidelines published last month by the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC). (See link below.) In a review of published literature on women’s age and ability to [...]
Have the critics of “delayed” motherhood ever taken into account how the cost of infertility treatments impacts maternal age? There’s common talk of the procreational sacrilege of women putting their careers before motherhood, or basking in blind ignorance regarding their peak fertility years until it’s too late. But what about women who are simply the [...]
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