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One of my favourite things about blogging is the way it shrinks the world. Here at Blogging Baby we have writers from France, Trinidad & Tobago, Canada, and West, East, and Middle America. I love it.I've admitted it before, though, I have a soft spot for Brits. I love the way their quirky little words and I adore the fresh clip of their accents. And through Blogging Baby and my own blog, I've "met" some adorable Brits that I want to share.
My first pick is not really a Brit, she's a Sassy Texan girl, actually, but she's currently living in the UK. In an entry earlier this week, she mourns the fact that she can no longer enjoy movies featuring children without worrying obsessively about them. She talks about the War of the Worlds, watching and fuming at Tom Cruise for neglecting his children. Interestingly, I did the same thing. I think as Moms we're doomed to fret, aren't we? I certainly never did that kind of thing prior to having Nolan.
Second is Geepeemum - a General Practitioner and Mum of two. She writes a provocative post here about advanced maternal age - and the consequences of attempting to conceive as an "older" woman. She discusses two women - ages 43 and 44, who desperately want to become pregnant and notes: "Hope is what drives both these women. Should we allow them to hope - indeed encourage it? Or should we introduce some reality and truth even if it feel cruel? I don't know the answers. What do you think?" Personally, I'd want to know the truth. I think.
Finally, we have Heidi Johanna at the Sprog Blog. She has just given birth to a 9 and a half pound baby boy and I am clutching my uterus in sympathy. Heidi Johanna is a fabulous read but she might be changing blog addresses - email her if you'd like the link.
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10-14-2006 @ 6:27AM
Catherine said...I think that a woman's feelings & desires about her fertility should be honoured. Not to avoid the reality, but since it is quite possible to get pregnant over 44, I don't think she should be shot down just because the odds may be against her.
None of us are statistics, and as long as she is cycling and ovulating & having sex, she has a chance to get pregnant. Recently there was a big to-do about women treating themselves as if they were pregnant until menopause, to protect any potential children.
So why can't we honour a woman's desire to have a child and do what we can to protect her fertility? Not to avoid reality, there is enough information in the media telling us that women are "over the hill" fertility-wise by 35y old.
Realistically, you don't know what her own chances are - you only know the statistical chances are for a woman her age. Some women find themselves unexpectedly pregnant for the first time at 50, due to the shift of hormones that happens.
I always find it interesting that if you go to a dr at 44y old and say you want to get pregnant - they tell you that it is impossible - it is never going to happen.
But if you go to the dr at 44y old and say you want to stop using birth control, they tell you that you can't stop - because you might get pregnant!
I don't know if anyone is aware of this, but the largest percentage of abortions are done on women under 18 and over 40. Which leads me to believe that the numbers of women who get pregnant over 40 are inaccurate.
Menopause is defined at 1 year after your last period. Up till that point, there is always a chance/risk of pregnancy. Would you want to be responsible for a baby born, harmed by a drug you prescribed?
Come read my blog:
2,822 Stories of Pregnancy & Birth over 44y old
http://pregnancyover44y.blogspot.com
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