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FlowerPowerMom.com today announces the upcoming launch of INFORMED CHOICES FOR LATER MOTHERS: What Women Should Know About Fertility, Birth and Parenting After 40, with the release of a 2-minute film trailer revealing key highlights. To view, visit FlowerPowerMom.com. It’s the first multidisciplinary panel of doctors and experts to speak candidly on the controversy surrounding later [...]
By Robert Boostanfar, M.D., FACOG and, Wendy Shubin, MPAS, PA-C, Huntingdon Reproductive Center, CA. Are you trying to have a baby after forty and seeing all these celebrities pregnant? So why are you having so much trouble conceiving? Well, the media is really good at showing us pictures of their beautiful babies, but their story [...]
By Madelyn Cain, author of “The Childless Revolution, What It Means to Be Childless Today” (Perseus) and “First Time Mothers, Last Chance Babies” (New Horizon Press). In a million years, I will never regret giving birth to my much-wanted daughter at age 39. My husband never regretted it either, and he became her father at [...]
By Pamela Ferdinand, journalist and co-author with Carey Goldberg and Beth Jones of “Three Wishes: A True Story of Good Friends, Crushing Heartbreak, and Astonishing Luck on Our Way to Love and Motherhood” (Little, Brown & Co.) I’m 46, a mother of two, and I’m getting married to the father of my children in less [...]
In an interview published on January 31st in the UK’s Daily Mail, Marcia Cross gave later life motherhood a definitive “thumbs down”. “Your forties is not a time to be thinking about getting pregnant,” she is quoted as saying. The article states she has no desire to be the “poster girl for older mothers,” and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Little did film writer and director Deidre Fishel imagine that, one day, she would buy sperm over the internet or star in her own documentary with an anonymous leading man—Sperm Donor X. Nor did she consider her twin daughters would have 18 sperm-siblings who were involved in a highly publicized case eventually featured on Oprah. [...]
Famous cartoon character, Olive Oyl, can still make Popeye’s heart pop after nearly 100 years. What’s her secret to looking so young? I figure it’s hiding in plain sight. Despite the ever-raging battle between my creeping, middle-aged spread and an uncompromising treadmill of life’s stresses, I admit to being fairly sanguine about my face. At [...]
“I was shocked when I found out I was pregnant”, says Access Hollywood TV show host, Laura Saltman, concerning the growing doubts she harbored about fertility in her late 30’s. Fresh from the Emmys—and chatting with stars like Rob Lowe and Zachary Levi—Saltman talked frankly this week to FlowerPowerMom.com about her innermost thoughts on motherhood, [...]
Angel on CNN
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Angel on CNN, Mother's Day story, May 8th 2011. (http://www NULL.youtube NULL.com/watch?v=WySnP2nnwXU)
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Read about Angel's CNN debate on Kelly Preston's pregancy.
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