Real reason for a pregnant pause
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My life is about my daughter now and I love it,says Tracey Parsons, 41, pictured with 14-month-old Charlotte / © Clara Molden |
Celebrity mothers such as Marcia Cross, the 45-year-old star of Desperate Housewives who last year gave birth to twins, may live in a rarefied world of hi-tech fertility treatments and round-the-clock nannies, but they are hardly alone in their desire to foil the biological clock.
New Government figures show a steep rise in the number of British women having babies in their 40s.
Conceptions in this age group are rising faster than in any other demographic, despite doctors' grim warnings about the increased risk of anything from miscarriage, maternal diabetes and caesarean sections to stillbirth and Downs Syndrome.
It all sounds distinctly alarming. So why are we leaving motherhood so late?
The stereotyped first-time mother in her 40s is a well-heeled singleton who has put breeding
on holdin order to achieve world domination on the career front. This turns out to be spurious.
Lindsey Harris, creator of the website Mothers35plus.co.uk, says:
In my experience, postponing motherhood has nothing to do with careers and everything to do with waiting for Mr Right.
A website survey of more than 2,000 women found a
lack of a suitable partner earlier onwas the main reason women waited until the 11th hour to have a baby.
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