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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Elizabeth Gregory may currently be the most widely quoted academic authority on later life motherhood in the US media. But, for her, there’s more at stake than touting her own special midlife brand of maternal feminism. She’s personally invested in a vision of the future that gives “pro-choice” a whole new meaning. Director of the [...]
Welcome to the next Forum of the Summer Series at our new A Child After 40 online community: Three Women and a Magic Sperm Vial—Contemplating Single Motherhood After 40. JOIN US from 12th–14th July and meet Beth Jones, an author and journalist who’s contributed to the Boston Globe, New York Times and Huffington Post. Beth [...]
The surprise take-away from Tina Fey’s appearance on Oprah earlier this month had to do with the handling Fey’s “big announcement”. While 40-year-old Fey was clearly pregnant—rendering the “big announcement” practically rhetorical—the viewing experience was riddled with awkward tension. It was like watching a couple of kids tossing a football following an afternoon of fingering [...]
Last month, the announcement that Kristine Casey gave birth to her own grandson at 61 had media headlines flashing like neon in the red light district. But what about the grandmas who are in it for the long run? Sylvia Butler—a Special Education teacher from Greene County, Tennessee, who spent most of her childhood in [...]
Last year, Deborah Lynn, a former senior executive in a cutting-edge high tech industry, dropped her career like a hot rock to become a single mother at 45—through a sperm donor. Why would any woman give up a lucrative job and a comfortable lifestyle to become society’s stereotypical whipping girl—a single mother? Unlike the classic [...]
This morning, as I lay on the floor virtually gasping with a sprig of mistletoe between my teeth (left over from a tree clean-up operation befitting a park ranger crew), I assessed this year’s bout of post-holiday-traumatic-stress-syndrome. I realized I’m in serious danger of walking into the light and losing my dreams. Knowing that the [...]
This was one of my first blogs about midlife motherhood after launching Flower Power Mom in 2009. Little did I know how it would come to symbolize a cardinal truth about motherhood after 40–the extremely emotional culture shock of trading a business career for a domestic one. In 2008, we bought a big old house [...]
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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