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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Welcome to our next Forum in the Summer & Fall Series at our online community–A Child After 40. JOIN US from Tuesday, 23rd to Thursday, 25th August 2011 and “Ask Dr. Boostanfar”, our fertility specialist for Common Concerns About IVF For Women Over 40. (To join the Forum, or obtain more info, scroll down.) Dr. [...]
Welcome to our Summer Series of Guest Expert & Author Forums at our online community–A Child After 40. JOIN US this week for a Q&A session hosted by Marna Gatlin, Founder of Parents Via Egg Donation (PVED): Egg Donation…At Your Age? From Tuesday 14th–Thurs 16th June, you can “Ask Marna” about any topic related to [...]
Not since the debut of Octomom has public reaction to been so extreme to…well, extreme procreational behavior. The media headlines all but scream obscenity that Zsa Zsa Gabor—a celebrity nonagenarian, quite literally on her last leg—wants to be a mom at 94. CNN’s story quoted Gabor’s husband of 25 years, Prince Frederic von Anhalt (http://en [...]
We often don’t realize how close to the bone our words can cut when we blog about people in the public eye. On the internet, it’s easy to put them at arm’s length. But one midlife mom recently reached out across the blogosphere and set the record straight. After posting a blog earlier this month [...]
Pardons for being an older mother do, from time to time—in the form of a regal thumbs-up—get dispensed beneath the media spotlight in the Colosseum of public entertainment. A few weeks ago it was a grandma who gave birth to her grandson via surrogacy in Chicago, Illinois. This week, it’s a 53 year old new [...]
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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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