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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 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 [...]
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 [...]
It took several years to get close to the ubiquitous driving force behind three of the most important blog sites for women over 40 hoping to conceive, but what—or rather whom—I discovered was, indeed, worth the wait. Catherine McDiarmid-Watt, a 57-year-old Canadian, is the last person you’d expect to advocate for midlife motherhood. Far from [...]
Welcome to our next Forum in the Summer Series at our online community–A Child After 40 (ACA40). JOIN US this coming week and meet author and former BBC journalist, Claudia Spahr for: Is 40+ The Right Time For A Baby? From Tuesday 5th–Thurs 7th, you can Login and “Ask Claudia” about her new book: Right Time Baby—The [...]
A study released in March 2011 revealed that younger mothers are significantly less happy than midlife moms. The results of a study spanning 86 countries, released by the University of Pennsylvania (see links below), also determined that the happiness of parents over 40 increased with additional children, while those under 30 became less so. Of [...]
By the time I conceived my second child at 44, I knew I would be afforded little opportunity to embrace the pregnancy experience with unrestricted joy. In fact, I gritted my teeth like Russel Casse (Randy Quaid) in Independence Day, before he rammed his fighter jet into the guts of a hostile alien ship and [...]
It appears that social bias regarding a woman giving birth later in life is based on whether she’s the grandma or the mom. When 61 year old Illinois resident, Kristine Casey, gave birth to her own grandson a few days ago, “there was not a dry eye in the crowded operating room,” doctors said. (Deborah [...]
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