[Judith]

This issue crossed my mind when I didn’t marry until thirty-seven. I wouldn’t worry about what other people think about your age when you have your baby–it’s not their business, frankly. I had my child when I was age thirty-nine and twenty-five percent gray. I worried only about birth defects due to my ‘AMA’ condition the ob/gyn wrote in big letters on top of all of my charts–polite medicalese for old–‘Advanced Maternal Age’. Most of the women in the childbirth class were only in their early twenties, but I felt comfort in seeing two entirely gray-haired, forty-something first time expectant mothers in my class. No one has ever said anything to me about having a first child later in life as strange, and I wouldn’t let it bother me if they did. It turns out that there was nothing to worry about.

User Detail :  

Name : Judith, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Methodist, Age : 40, City : Tucson, State : AZ, Country : United States, Occupation : Biologist/Manager, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

[Author]

Posts