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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 Lorne Brown, Dr.TCM, B.Sc, FABORM, CHt There’s been tons of news lately about how fertility for women declines dramatically after 40. But, there are alternatives—Chinese Medicine offers hope to women over 40, making it possible to extend that reproductive window of opportunity and slow down the biological clock. Of course age matters and if [...]
By Deirdre Fishel, independent filmmaker, writer and director of SPERM DONOR X. When I look at my life, there are some things I wish I’d done earlier. I’m now in grad school, so I can teach full time to complement my filmmaking career. But it would’ve been a helluva lot easier doing it without kids. [...]
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By Bill Chun, MD, FACOG, Medical Director at Northern Essex Women’s Health, MA, Founder, 40 & Beyond, LLC. During the more than twenty years I have worked as an OB/GYN I have guided mothers from the age of thirteen to fifty-three through the process of conception to childbirth. If I haven’t seen it all, I [...]
By Claudia Spahr, author of Right Time Baby–The Complete Guide To Later Motherhood, published by Hay House, UK. It’s a widely held belief that getting pregnant when you’re older is harder. However, it’s not necessarily so and there’s a lot you can do improve your chances of conceiving naturally. Key factors are diet, lifestyle, stress [...]
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 [...]
By Mache Seibel, MD, Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School. If Goldilocks were trying to conceive she would have asked the question, “Is my timing to early, to late, or just right.” Depending where you are in your personal life and in your reproductive life, timing and perspective for those 3 issues may be very [...]
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 [...]
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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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