Being Pregnant Over 40?

It’s no surprise that the rate of women over 40 having babies has increased significantly as compared to teenage pregnancies. Just last year 2013, statistics from Australian bureau of statistics showed that there were many women over 40 giving birth as compared to teenage pregnancies. There might be a slight difference in number but it’s still higher.

The statistics as of last year stood at 29158 of babies that were born with mums under 40 and 29136 of babies born with teenagers. There are a couple of reasons why this is the case; to begin with, younger women are now more involved in higher education. More attention is focused on building carrier as opposed to focus placed on child bearing. Other contributing factors include uncertainty in labor market, relationship instability and housing.

Even though there might a lot of risk accompanied with child birth in later life, women have a reason to smile since research shows that late child bearing is beneficial to the child. Research conducted by Australian bureau of statistics also showed that children born with mothers over 40 years do have a better emotional balance. It also reduces parent to child conflict. In addition, the child would have better language development by the time they reached four years.

Having a baby after 40

Women over 40 are well assisted in reproduction despite the health complications that comes about with delayed motherhood. Getting a baby at such an age can bring about financial security and greater life experience. Some of the women have no choice when it comes to getting babies, reason being they might not have found the right person at the right time. This is one of the factors that play a role in increased conception for women over 40.

Placing a greater emphasis on other aspects of life while young has also contributed to such kind of trend. Such women would be less likely to have options of having kids and would often go about their business. Analysts predict that social changes are less likely to have more mothers getting children past the 40 years of age.

The Australian report on child birth showed that there were more than 30900 babies that were born in the year 2012. As compared to the previous year, it was an increase of about 8,000. Concequently there was a national fertility rate of about 1.93 from a previous 1.75 which was a 10 percent increase. Parenting past the age of 40 can prove to be a challenge especially for children as they would hardly see their grandparents.

Work commitment that keeps you out for a long time also contributes to older child bearing women. In an instance where the dad works in the military and hardly comes home, or those who came from world war I or II. The fact that a lot of emphasis and campaigns have been put in place to reduce teenage pregnancy, with the same not reciprocated on older women, has led to increased older child bearing women.

Six Years Can Reduce Your Chances of Having Children

Doctors have recently revealed how just six years can reduce your chances of having children by ten times in an attempt to convince women to stop putting off motherhood.
From the age of 37 to the age of 43 it becomes ten times harder to conceive a child, due to the number of eggs needed for pregnancy, according to doctors. The number of eggs needed after those six years rises exponentially from 4.4 on average when you are 37 to 44 when you are 43.

Nearly half of all babies born in the US are now born to women over the age of 30, as career and the hunt for ‘the one’ with whom we wish to spend our lives take over our desires for motherhood. While most women desire a family one day, they admit that other factors are more important in their lives before the commit themselves to having a child.

Researcher Meredith Brower found that because the typical woman produces one egg every month, it would take on average 4 months for a woman aged 37 to become pregnant, while it could take up to 4 years for the same woman aged six years older to conceive a child. Aged less than 35 years, it would typically take a woman 15 weeks to create a healthy embryo, showing the dramatic change in a woman’s reproductive system in less than ten years.

Ms Brower urged all women over the age of 35 to freeze their eggs as soon as possible in order to extend the deadline with which they are battling. This research has responded to nationwide concern that women are leaving having children too late, and risk heartbreak at discovering they are infertile when it is too late to do anything about it. Freezing eggs while they are still at an ideal age for conception will allow women to continue searching for the perfect partner or striving to gain as much from their career as possible before taking a break to enjoy their family.

Controversially, companies in the US have begun paying their female staff to have their eggs frozen in a move which is aimed at increasing or steadying the numbers of female workers in companies such as Apple and Facebook. This perk, given only to employees in the US offices, will allow women to concentrate on their professions without losing their chances of having children at a later date. This move could be seen from both a compassionate and a selfish angle as businesses seek to help women achieve all of their dreams, but also seek to achieve their own objectives when it comes to workers and staff numbers.