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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 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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Far from “decrepit,” “freakish,” or “bizarre”—as new mothers over fifty were recently characterized in a New York Magazine article—Lynn Laszewski is the healthy face of the latest maternal trend. A child of “The Quiet Revolution,” which has seen women gradually take charge of half of our workforce since the 1970’s, she has several degrees in [...]
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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