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Archive | Mums over 40
‘My baby might never have happened’ – Telegraph
Posted on 30 April 2012.
Posted in Babies, Family, Media and Celebrity, Mums over 40, PregnancyComments Off
Obesity and delayed motherhood fuel rising numbers of mothers who die in labour | Mail Online
Posted on 30 April 2012.
Rising numbers of women are dying in labour as obesity and delayed motherhood make births more risky. There are concerns maternity units can’t cope with the increasing number of complicated and potentially dangerous labours. A study of women giving birth in London, published in the Lancet medical journal, found the death rate has doubled since [...]
Posted in Family, Health, IVF and Fertility, Maternity, Mums over 40, Obesity, Pregnancy, Pregnancy and ChildbirthComments Off
IVF mum Sue Tollefsen: I was wrong to have a baby at 57 | Mail Online
Posted on 25 March 2012.
Sue Tollefsen’s only child Freya turns four tomorrow and an epic weekend of celebrations is planned. As well as a trip to the Moscow Ballet and a family get-together, Freya and 15 little friends will mark her birthday with an adventure playground party. ‘And after that, I expect I’ll come home, flop into a chair [...]
Posted in Mums over 40, Music, Dance and DramaComments Off
Menopausal? No, we were pregnant! | Mail Online
Posted on 22 March 2012.
Hazel Nicolson approached what she thought was the onset of menopause not with dread, but a sense of optimism. Having raised two children, she was all too familiar with the relentless, often unappreciated drudgery of motherhood. With her reproductive system winding down, she was looking forward to a long-awaited opportunity to relax. So it came [...]
Posted in Just Mums, Mums over 40Comments Off
Britain’s oldest first-time mother regrets having daughter so late – Telegraph
Posted on 21 March 2012.
Sue Tollefsen, 61, revealed she was recently left unable to care for Freya for weeks after contracting a blood infection that left her incapacitated over Christmas. The retired teacher, who became a mother four years ago, said the experience of her illness made her realise she may not be able to see her daughter grow [...]
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We wish we’d had babies in our thirties, admit 80 per cent of first-time parents in their forties | Mail Online
Posted on 12 March 2012.
The question of when is the right time to have a baby may never be answered but a new study shows there is a perceived ideal age among older parents. Despite the growing number of mothers 40 years old and over, 80 per cent of women and 70 per cent of men said that the [...]
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Motherhood is easier if you’re older – Telegraph
Posted on 04 March 2012.
When Linda de Lange gave birth to her fourth son, one month away from her 48th birthday, the unplanned pregnancy divided her family and friends. “From some of my female friends, there was immediate hysterical laughter – they would say it was their worst nightmare. Others were very jealous. At that stage in life, the [...]
Posted in Just Mums, Mums over 40Comments Off
Let’s give older mothers a break | guardian.co.uk
Posted on 01 March 2012.
According to new statistics the female population of England and Wales are giving birth at rates not seen since the baby boom at the end of the second world war, and while the number of teenage pregnancies is declining, an increasing proportion of new babies are being born to older mothers. How should we greet [...]
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Older mothers fuelling biggest ever baby boom: 900,000 pregnancies in a year beats post-war record | Mail Online
Posted on 01 March 2012.
A boom in motherhood among older women has driven up the number of pregnancies to record levels, official figures revealed yesterday. For the first time, more than 900,000 women became pregnant in a year, a level not reached even during the baby boom years after World War Two. The unprecedented number of conceptions was fuelled [...]
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We older mums should be praised, not criticised – Telegraph
Posted on 01 March 2012.
When I was 43, I was tormented by a recurring nightmare. Grey-haired and doddery, I was pushing a Zimmerframe down the road. It was hard work, as I could only use my left hand; with the other, I pushed a pram. I’d wake up in a sweat: I was expecting my first child and was [...]
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Older mothers fuelling biggest ever baby boom: 900,000 pregnancies in a year beats post-war record | Mail Online
Posted on 29 February 2012.
A boom in motherhood among older women has driven up the number of pregnancies to record levels, official figures revealed yesterday. For the first time, more than 900,000 women became pregnant in a year, a level not reached even during the baby boom years after World War Two. The unprecedented number of conceptions was fuelled [...]
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Older mothers at ‘greater risk of depression’ due to worrying about themselves and the health of their babies | Mail Online
Posted on 22 February 2012.
Anxiety about their own health and that of their babies could leave older mothers open to depression, research suggests. A study of thousands of mothers of children aged five and under found depression rates to be far higher in those aged 40 to 44 than among those who were younger. Though the cause was unclear, [...]
Posted in Just Mums, Mums over 40, Post-natal depressionComments Off
Older mothers ‘five times more likely to suffer from depression’ – Telegraph
Posted on 22 February 2012.
Women in their late thirties and early forties who have recently given birth are more likely to be depressed than younger mothers. This could be down to the higher levels of stress older women go through during pregnancy due to concerns about their and their baby’s health, it was claimed. Giulia Muraca, a PHD student [...]
Posted in Just Mums, Mums over 40, Post-natal depression, Pregnancy and ChildbirthComments Off
Pregnancy in IVF patients over the age of 50 ‘carries no more risk than in women under 42′ | Mail Online
Posted on 04 February 2012.
New research into pregnancy in older women has cast doubt over the blanket belief that the higher the age of the mother-to-be, the higher the likelihood of risk. A study at Columbia University Medical Center of 101 post-menopausal women, all receiving IVF treatment using donated eggs, found that their subsequent pregnancies were at no more [...]
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Older parents more likely to have an autistic child… but scientists are stumped as to why | Mail Online
Posted on 03 February 2012.
Children born to a parent over 35 are at greater risk for developing an autism spectrum disorder – but the risk is the same whether just one or both parents are older, researchers said. The findings, from University of Aarhus School of Public Health in Denmark, cast doubt on the theory that older sperm or [...]
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‘Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant’: Marcia Cross on how she doesn’t want to be a ‘poster-girl’ for older mothers | Mail Online
Posted on 31 January 2012.
She began fertility treatment aged 44 and went on to give birth to twin daughters Eden and Savannah. But despite hailing her girls as ‘a miracle’, Marcia Cross has no illusions about having children later in life. When asked about being the ‘poster girl’ for older mothers, The Desperate Housewife star, who had a difficult [...]
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Kate Silverton: ‘You can’t beat the biological clock’ – Telegraph
Posted on 31 January 2012.
Two fortysomething women, no make-up on and hair tousled, are sitting around a messy table in west London cooing over photographs and swapping motherhood tips. “But how do you crack the naps?” Kate Silverton asks fellow BBC newscaster Fiona Bruce. Bruce (who’s popped in on the way to present the evening bulletin) shrugs and laughs. [...]
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Number of babies born to women of 45 and over trebles in just ten years | Mail Online
Posted on 28 January 2012.
The number of babies born to women aged 45 and over has almost trebled in the past decade, official figures show. In 2010, 1,758 – around five a day – were born to these older mothers. In 2000, the comparable figure was 663. Just three out of five of the women were in a marriage [...]
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My gorgeous little accident: Debbie amazed doctors – not to mention her grandchildren – by getting pregnant naturally at 53 while on the Pill. Here she shares her joy… and exhaustion! | Mail Online
Posted on 28 January 2012.
Peering at the two blue lines on the pregnancy test, Debbie Hughes reached for her reading glasses to check that her eyes weren’t deceiving her. Fast approaching her 53rd birthday, she thought she was too old to conceive naturally and, besides, she was on the Pill. It was impossible, she thought, her stomach ‘lurching with [...]
Posted in Grandparents, Just Mums, Mums over 40Comments Off
Internet dating at 40 – and a baby at 43 | guardian.co.uk
Posted on 25 January 2012.
As this century dawned and half the world was waking up to the first day of the Noughties, I was walking down the Strand ending my seven year relationship. I was 35 and it felt like hell. Most of my friends and all of my siblings had children. I came from a family of six [...]
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Debbie Hughes: Grandmother who’s a mum again at 53 | Mail Online
Posted on 25 January 2012.
At the age of 53, Debbie Hughes imagined the only babies she would be looking after would be her granddaughters. Instead, despite taking the contraceptive Pill, she has become one of Britain’s oldest ever naturally conceiving mothers – giving birth to a healthy baby boy named Kyle. Miss Hughes took a pregnancy test after her [...]
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Crisis on maternity wards as births to women over 40 soar 70% in ten years
Posted on 23 November 2011.
A baby boom among women aged over 40 is fuelling a crisis on maternity wards, midwives are warning.
Posted in Mums over 40, PregnancyComments Off
IVF and the great lie about fertility and the over-40s
Posted on 30 June 2011.
My mother was 29 when she had me, and used to joke about what an old mum that made her.
Posted in IVF and Fertility, Just Mums, Mums over 40, Pro-life and abortionComments Off
Middle-aged mothers between 35 and 54 are ‘more likely to go broke’
Posted on 04 November 2010.
Middle-aged mothers between 35 and 54 are ‘more likely to go broke’
Posted in Divorce and children, Internet Kids, Just Mums, Mums over 40, ParentsComments Off
Nearly half of all babies born to mothers over the age of 30
Posted on 22 October 2010.
Almost half of all babies born last year were to mothers over the age of 30, with a boom in babies born to those over the age of 45.
Posted in Babies, Mums over 40, Pregnancy and ChildbirthComments Off
A new mum again … at 48!
Posted on 02 October 2010.
A new mum again … at 48!
Posted in Internet Kids, Mums over 40, ParentsComments Off
Women aged 40 and over could be given free IVF treatment
Posted on 27 June 2010.
Women aged 40 and over could be given free IVF treatment
Posted in Health, Internet Kids, IVF and Fertility, Mums over 40, ParentsComments Off
World’s oldest mother reveals she is dying… just 18 months after IVF birth aged 70
Posted on 14 June 2010.
World’s oldest mother reveals she is dying… just 18 months after IVF birth aged 70
Posted in Internet Kids, IVF and Fertility, Mums over 40, Parents, World NewsComments Off
A first-time mother at 57
Posted on 08 June 2010.
Susan Tollefsen, 59, of Laindon, Essex, is a retired teacher. Two years ago she had her first child, Freya Lucia
Posted in IVF and Fertility, Mums over 40, Pregnancy and ChildbirthComments Off
Older mothers: there are more of them than ever – but who are they?
Posted on 01 June 2010.
Older mothers: there are more of them than ever – but who are they?
Posted in Childhood illnesses, Internet Kids, IVF and Fertility, Just Mums, Mums over 40, Parents, Pregnancy and ChildbirthComments Off
Babies are better late than never
Posted on 27 May 2010.
As figures show a record number of women giving birth over 40, Cassandra Jardine says that this trend is no cause for alarm
Posted in IVF and Fertility, Mums over 40, Pregnancy and ChildbirthComments Off
When’s the best time to have a baby?
Posted on 27 May 2010.
New statistics show that record numbers of women in their 40s are having babies. Over the last 20 years, the number of fortysomething women giving birth in England and Wales has almost trebled.
Posted in Mums over 40, Working MumsComments Off
Baby boom for the over-forties but overall birth rate is down
Posted on 27 May 2010.
The number of children born to mothers in their forties has almost trebled in the past two decades and continues to rise, latest figures show.
Posted in Mums over 40, Pregnancy and ChildbirthComments Off
Oldest woman to get IVF in Britain cancels treatment
Posted on 17 May 2010.
The woman who was on the point of becoming the oldest to receive fertility treatment in Britain has backed out because she is “too old”.
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‘I thought it was menopause’: Italian woman shocks doctors by falling pregnant aged 54 – NATURALLY
Posted on 13 May 2010.
A 54-year-old Italian woman has amazed doctors and herself by falling pregnant naturally.
Posted in Mums over 40, Pregnancy and Childbirth1 Comment
Why women are left on the edge
Posted on 09 May 2010.
Despite having outwardly perfect families, jobs and homes, many fortysomething women are in the grip of depression
Posted in Grandparents, Just Mums, Mums over 40, Working MumsComments Off
Learning to be left on the shelf
Posted on 18 April 2010.
Zoom! Bang! Cue peals of laughter. The two blonde heads whizzed down the path on their scooters, slamming happily into the french windows.
Posted in IVF and Fertility, Just for Dads, Mums over 40, Working MumsComments Off
Politics is off as Mumsnetters get raunchy
Posted on 21 March 2010.
MUM’S the word! The website favoured by Gordon Brown and other politicians to court young mothers is turning blue.
Posted in Just Mums, Mums over 40Comments Off
Does mumsnet know best?
Posted on 21 March 2010.
Are politicians right to woo mothers at the election? And does internet behemoth mumsnet, which has hosted all the main leaders, really speak for Britain’s mums? Janet Street-Porter crosses swords with Justine Roberts, founder of the website its critics dub ‘smugsnet’
Posted in Just Mums, Mums over 40Comments Off
Are British men becoming mummy’s boys too?
Posted on 27 January 2010.
It wasn’t the weekly Sunday lunches at his mother’s house, or that she came round to clean his flat and left food parcels in the kitchen that finally put the lid on Naomi Reece’s relationship with her boyfriend of ten months, a graphic designer. It was the persistent phone calls that he refused to ignore, even when they arrived at intimate moments.
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What is society’s problem with elderly mothers?
Posted on 27 January 2010.
A 59-year-old plans to have a baby through IVF and dissenting voices can be heard everywhere from the newspapers to the office watercooler. But is there really any reason why we should have a problem with the idea, asks medical ethicist Daniel Sokol.
Posted in Adhd, Autism, Divorce and children, Grandparents, IVF and Fertility, Mums over 40Comments Off
Too Old to be a Mum? BBC One, review
Posted on 27 January 2010.
Benji Wilson reviews Too Old to be a Mum?, BBC One’s documentary about women who give birth in their later years.
Posted in Divorce and children, IVF and Fertility, Mums over 40, Twins and multiplesComments Off
The trouble with women: they always want to talk
Posted on 24 January 2010.
Matt, 34, a journalist, explains what drives him mad about the fairer sex
Posted in Just Mums, Mums over 40Comments Off
Women told to stop looking for Mr Right
Posted on 24 January 2010.
Author claims that over-30s would be happier if they settled for Mr Not Bad
Posted in Divorce and children, Just Mums, Mums over 40, One Parent families, Working MumsComments Off
Woman, 59, to get IVF treatment: other controversial mothers
Posted on 18 January 2010.
Last year 66-year-old Elizabeth Adeney from Lidgate, Suffolk, became the country’s oldest mother after travelling to Ukraine for fertility treatment.
Posted in Divorce and children, IVF and Fertility, Mums over 40, Pregnancy and ChildbirthComments Off
IVF among older women: arguments for and against
Posted on 18 January 2010.
The issue of fertility treatment for post-menopausal women raises a number of medical and ethical concerns which have become the subject of fierce debate.
Posted in Divorce and children, IVF and Fertility, Mums over 40, Pregnancy and ChildbirthComments Off
Feminism: what went wrong?
Posted on 12 January 2010.
It started with Girl Power and has sunk into mindless hedonism. Why has sexual equality backfired?
Posted in Divorce and children, Just for Dads, Just Mums, Mums over 40, Working MumsComments Off
Study Says Women With Mate Get Heavier
Posted on 11 January 2010.
It is widely known that women tend to gain weight after giving birth, but now a large study has found evidence that even among childless women, those who live with a mate put on more pounds than those who live without one.
Posted in Divorce and children, Just Mums, Mums over 40, Working MumsComments Off
Women ‘too busy’ to go for cancer screenings
Posted on 07 January 2010.
Practical reasons could be more significant than emotional ones in explaining why many women miss cervical cancer screenings, a study suggests.
Posted in Divorce and children, Health, Just Mums, Mums over 40, Working MumsComments Off
Pregnant again … at 47!
Posted on 02 January 2010.
I lie in bed at night with my partner wondering out loud what it will be like to have a baby again. It’s surprisingly hard to remember. A newborn baby is utterly helpless, we remember that. It can’t control its neck. It doesn’t sleep much, and it feeds for hours. It has a shrieking, compelling cry. None the less, my partner is enthusiastic. “Oh, it will be great,” he says. “Now we have the chance to do it again.”
Posted in Babies, Divorce and children, Mums over 40, Pregnancy and Childbirth2 Comments
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