One for the Ladies on here!

[steve'O]

I hear you need spunk for this job

[n5gooner]

I hear you need spunk for this job

yes I have that on the CV as well.

(thats why the pages are stuck together.)

[Rebecca Loos]

Back to the thread!

Jez, you are a dirty lot, aren't you? Suppose it's Friday.... you've got an excuse. Are your wives and girlfriends more accomodating at the weekend? I know I am

Anyway what the article was basically saying was "women who wait after they're 30 to have kids are at risk of 1. finding it hard to get pregnant, 2. finding pregnancy harder 3. finding childbirth harder"

Frankly hardly new stuff. What it doesn't say is that with science progress in helping women being more fertile, better monitoring during pregnancy and a whole lot of new birth methods, these kind of warnings are a bit old hat. Lots of women have got their first kid in their thirties and frankly that is not a problem any more.

There! Ask an expert next time Shaun

oh and here's your rolling smiley

[WageSlave]

Jez, you are a dirty lot, aren't you? Suppose it's Friday.... you've got an excuse. Are your wives and girlfriends more accomodating at the weekend? I know I am

Hey, I was very nice to DP! When everyone was being nasty to him, WS came along with a kindly word...

[wc2]

If this trend continues then the population of the UK will shrink..

A whole generation gone.

On the other hand there are always the young ladies from the highest hills in Wales. The average age of child birth is about 15 the'll make up the gap.

But then on the other hand before long there will be even more Welsh.

Looks like everyone on this board in the year 2090 will be speaking Welsh.

[xoggoth]

Aha! SB is back, former king of the CUK bruisers. Nobody could touch you in your heyday SB. Question is, are you still up to it OLD MAN?

Buys popcorn and settles back in ringside seat.

For men, there are also risks in waiting until they are older to father children as semen counts deteriorate with age, they say.

It does indeed. Practically worthless once you have scraped it off your socks in the morning I've heard.

[wc2]

fe dim gobod

[stackpole]

Anyway what the article was basically saying was "women who wait after they're 30 to have kids are at risk of 1. finding it hard to get pregnant, 2. finding pregnancy harder 3. finding childbirth harder"

Frankly hardly new stuff. What it doesn't say is that with science progress in helping women being more fertile, better monitoring during pregnancy and a whole lot of new birth methods, these kind of warnings are a bit old hat. Lots of women have got their first kid in their thirties and frankly that is not a problem any more.

There! Ask an expert next time Shaun

Bex, I wouldn't be so smug. What you have omitted to mention is:

4. Increased risk of chromosomal abnormalities in the child
5. Increased risk of abnormalities in the child due to harder pregnancy (eg placenta problems) or childbirth

These risks rise dramatically as the mother gets older.

You might be all right thanks to better healthcare getting you through "your" pregnancy, but there is a child to consider too. Such a child could carry these problems with them for the rest of their lives, and possibly pass them on to their children (if they can have them), regardless of what age they give birth.

[cojak]

There's definately something in the old saying "you don't know what you're missing"...

Usually said by parents with huge black binliners under their eyes...

I merely agree. What I don't know won't hurt me...

[wendigo100]

These risks rise dramatically as the mother gets older.

Also, you start getting old while they are still at school.

It isn't so easy at 50 to run about with them, and by the time they get to start a family of their own, you are retired (or, if your children leave it late as well, you are more likely to be dead, or ga-ga, and they will miss having grandparents).

Unless you are an giant alien lizard of course. Although, when you are chasing your children in order to eat them (I know that's non-PC vis-a-vis giant alien lizards, but let's not beat about the bush), it gets harder to catch them at all when you reach three hundred years old.