Over the past 15 years, the number of women who are burrowing for the first time for the first time between the ages of 30 and 39 has more than doubled. Over the same period, the number of women over 40 who give birth for the first time increased by 50%. 10 years ago, the woman’s biological clock began to sound anxious when she was 30. Today, the first ring sounds around 35 or even after 40.
Why is this happening? One of the reasons is greater safety. Prenatal researchers reduced women to 40 because of the danger of giving birth to babies with genetic defects to the level of girls at the age of 20 years. There are new methods of treatment of infertility, from which women over 35 often suffer. New advances in medicine in the care of an expectant mother suffering from a chronic disease or in the case of complicated pregnancy have allowed women to give birth to normal healthy children. Sufficiently safe methods of contraception and such popular people as Hollywood actress Kim Basinger, who became exemplary, the birth of the first wave, which is more than 40 years old, also contributed to popularizing the opinion “it is never too late.” Now many women believe that they can delay the birth of a child without any risk for themselves until a certain time, which means that until they get an education, they will not succeed in the carrier, they will not strengthen their financial position and will find a suitable relative.
Indeed, many women give birth not only because they want to. Late pregnancy can be the result of infertility, late marriage, or second marriage.
What is the best age for childbirth?
Although according to medical prescriptions, the best age for childbirth is from 20 to 24 years, many women believe that they are not emotionally prepared for this at this age. For some women, whose childhood passed in the 50s – 60s, this age probably was a long uncomfortable age than the beginning of adulthood. Such a shift means that women reach emotional maturity 10 years after the peak of physical maturity. But today, a woman who has become pregnant from 35 years old is no longer at high risk.
Indeed, if a woman over 35 years old is physically healthy, does not suffer from infertility, does not have miscarriages, her chances of having a normal healthy child are almost the same as those of a 20-year-old girl.
How to assess the degree of risk?
Pregnancy after 35 years, of course, may not be completely free from risk, but it is not as high as you think, and in many cases it can be minimized. A not very young woman who wants to give birth for the first time should remember the following points.
First, it can be difficult to get pregnant. There is documented information that the ability to give birth decreases after 35 years.
Without even mentioning such a negative factor as premature menopause, this means that you can conceive in one day and cannot in another. It may take 6-12 months for you, not 4.
But the great danger that the traps of an elderly woman who is pregnant for the first time is associated with the birth of a child with genetic defects, especially with a decrease in the syndrome.
Statistics show that in 40 years a woman can give birth to a child with Down syndrome 9 times higher than in 30 years. In a 40-year-old woman, the probability of having a baby with Down syndrome is less than 1%. And, despite the increase in risk with age, by 45 years a woman is 3%, i.e. Looking from the other side, the probability of having a healthy baby is 97%. Women over 35 often suffer from complications during pregnancy, especially diabetes and high blood pressure, which are associated with older people in general. About 6% of women over 35 suffer from such complications compared with 1.3% of young people.
According to statistics, older women may suffer from pregnancy complications, including abortion of the placenta and the fetal condition, which require a medical operation, and can have very serious consequences for the health of the mother and child. Increased risk of miscarriage. Delivery can be complicated and lengthy, and these are the basic cesarean section recipes that are now quite popular. However, researchers have shown that, on average, the length of labor of women who give birth at an older age exceeded the duration of birth of young people only by 45 minutes.
For women over 35, the risk of problems with endometriosis and fibroma increases, which can affect fertility and pregnancy.
But all these types of hazards can be minimized if a woman, who is most likely planning a pregnancy carefully, prepares physically for the upcoming pregnancy in advance.
Fetus organs form during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, and during this period the fetus is most injured, according to doctors, so if you eat well, refuse nicotine and alcohol, caffeine and drugs, start taking vitamins and exercise, you will increase your the chances of easily and well tolerate pregnancy and have a healthy baby. However, pregnancy is not the time to start exercising, doctors warn. You need to prepare physically for this before you become pregnant, then it will be easier for you to cope with problems if they appear.
Proper assessment of the real risk can become an older woman to reduce stress during pregnancy, which often leads to complications during childbirth. Each emotion is accompanied by changes in the biochemistry of the body. If you think you are sick, you can actually become sick.
If a woman is about 40 years old and she is going to give birth for the first time, and at first she is singing about some kind of problem, the doctor starts working. He intervenes in a hurry. Unfortunately, you should not completely trust previous studies of women older than genital age. Somewhere in women of this age there were many children, and everything was not in order with health, or it was women who had been trying to get pregnant for a long time - maybe the last 15 years, but they had miscarriages.
Recent studies have focused on women who are more in line with the current demographic situation: these women, as a rule, belonged to the middle class, were well educated, at first waves were born, not the 10th child. If you do not take into account the fact of infertility, then women of older genital age and their younger sisters differ little.
The right timing
It is clear that late motherhood has several advantages. Women who are not in a hurry to give birth to babies become better prepared for childbirth and childbirth. It is proved that older women do not suffer from the ambivalence of feelings during pregnancy and rarely go through internal conflicts. They treat pregnancy more like God, not because they could not give birth at an earlier age. Knowing who you are and what you want comes with age and experience.
You are more disciplined and live in harmony with yourself.
You understand what you have to give up and what awaits you.
Pregnancy in later years usually falls in time for deep reflections; two mature people who make this decision have a lot of life experience. Depending on the age of the wife, they can see the “last chance” in themselves and treat it as a precious gift of fate.
Studies have shown that a late child is especially important for a mother; a woman at that age is less stressed, more open and interested in learning new than new mothers.
The late child comes into the world as a favorite gift to a woman who knows what she wants. In one American hospital, a study was conducted when they compared the feelings of women who were going to give birth for the first time, of different ages: it was found that women of the older age group experience less stress during pregnancy than very young women who are constantly at risk of having a child with genetic defects , despite the fact that the child is likely to change its ordinary life more. According to the researchers, an elderly woman, most of whom married later, is more likely to become more self-confident, independent, feel better, and this improves their mood during pregnancy. Although while labor is approaching, they may feel depressed, but not as much as young women.
Moreover, an elderly woman who has devoted all her young years to the carrier can treat the pregnancy as an opportunity to try herself in what is left empty in her life. Unlike a young woman who has not yet found her place in the world, an older mother is less inclined to expect her child to become aware of her dreams. She also does not think that the child is “putting her off” when she tries to complete her achievements. Most mothers who continue to give birth late have already taken care to become professionals.
Reverse medal
Late maternity, of course, has negative sides. Older women of genital age do not recover from childbirth as quickly as young women.
Some women face difficulties in getting used to the demands of caring for a child because they have been taking care of themselves for so many years. A very organized woman feels bad in a situation where everything — pregnancy, childbirth, child care — cannot be planned as it happens most often. As for late pregnancy, there are other things to consider. Although women now give birth at an older age, there is still a moment when it is too late to give birth. Parents should be limited to a child only or give birth at a very short interval. Some opponents of late childbirth indicate that parents spoil them too often - the syndrome of a precious child, especially if it is an only child. However, this tension is observed in any age group.
We also need to dwell on other arithmetic. At the age of 35-40, a woman can simultaneously play the role of both a newly-minted mother and a nurse for her old parents.
Mother with gray hair
What types of role models can offer gray-haired parents to teenagers? Due to the large difference in age between the parents and the child, there is a danger of a gap. Many parents who are slowly burrowing are getting too busy to feel old.
Later, motherhood obliges you to remain young. You answer everything, take part in everything.
