The news that the Royal family expects replenishment usually occurs very rapidly, and is accompanied by a talk about the field name and the title of the future Prince or Princess.
Since Kensington Palace announced that in the spring the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be parents, all these discussions touched them. But there is another slippery subject age Megan. The Duchess will be the first time mother at the age of 37. This has led to discussions about her fertility, which began even before in may she married Prince Harry. Around talking about the so-called ticking biological clock.
But the Duchess wasn’t the only one facing such attacks. According to the latest figures from the office for national statistics in the UK, the average age of women who became a mother for the first time, increased to 28.8. More than half (54%) of all babies were born to mothers aged 30 years and older that has changed considerably since 1996, when 41% of children born to mothers 30 , and in 2006 this figure is less than -48%.
Despite the statistics, which emphasize the tendency for women to create a family much later compared to previous decades, there is still massageblogger when it comes to birth and parenting women, whose age crossed the mark of 35 years.
Harpers Bazaar asked the experts of the NCT (National Childbirth Trust) and HCA healthcare who work in private clinics and maternity leave in the UK, to dispel or confirm these myths. Here’s what came of it.
Myth # 1: You will need more time to get pregnant if you’re trying to do it after 35 years
Meghan Markle for the first time becoming a mother at the age of 37.
NICE (National Childbirth Trust) said that more than 80% of couples conceive a child within first year, if a woman not older than 40 years, they do not use contraception and have sex regularly. This percentage decreases slightly when the woman turns 40.
Myth # 2: women after 35 years rarely get to become a mother, as fertility is deteriorating rapidly
In fact, women after 35 years old quite often become mothers. In England, for example, almost one in five (17.7 percent) of all women giving birth in the period from 2016 to 2017 was a woman aged 35-39 years, according to NHS Maternity Statistics for England.
Dr. James Nicopoullos, a specialist in reproductive medicine the Lister Fertility clinic HCA, confirms that the pregnancy is in the second half of the third ten life is not uncommon.
Myth # 3: If the woman is more than 35 years, the risk of miscarriage increases dramatically
Yes, there is a slightly higher risk of miscarriage. According to the charity Tommys, among women under the age of thirty years every tenth pregnancy ends in miscarriage. Among women aged 35 to 39 years, the threshold increases slightly to two pregnancies out of ten.
In accordance with the data of this organization, one out of every four women will have at least one miscarriage in my life. The NHS also notes that for most women, miscarriage is a one-time, and in the future they can expect a successful pregnancy.
80% of couples conceive a child naturally within the first year if the woman is under the age of 40 years.
No matter how traumatic and difficult not had an early miscarriage, usually a quality-control mechanism of the body thus gets rid of the embryo that developed from genetically abnormal eggs (or more rarely sperm).
Myth # 4: If the woman managed to get pregnant after 35 years old, so she underwent IVF
This is not so. 80% of couples conceive a child naturally within the first year if the woman is under the age of 40 years. According to the latest data of the Department of fertilization and embryology in the UK, in 2016, 42% of the patients who underwent the IVF procedure, were under the age of 35 years, 23% were women, 35 to 37, 14% at the age of 38-39 years old, 14% at age 40-42 and 4% at the age of 43-44 years. Thus, the average age of IVF patients was 35.5 years.
Dr. Nikopoulos adds that couples who cannot conceive by natural means, should as soon as possible to consider examination and treatment because the chances for success of infertility treatment begin to decline rapidly after 35 years.
Myth # 5: Pregnancy after 35 years is classified as a geriatric pregnancy
There was a lot of debate about what the pregnancy of the Duchess of Sussex was classified as geriatric, but Dr. Nichopoulos says that such a term was not commonly used by physicians because of its obvious negative associations. In its online guide for pregnancy, the NHS also does not apply to women who gave birth after 35 years as geriatric mothers. The term ceased to be used until a few decades ago. Dr. Nikopoulos adds:
The absolute edge of the cliff, before which the risk of miscarriage dramatically begins to decline, does not exist. All individually. Discuss risks which depend not only on age but also on the health and well-being of the mother, you should women of all ages.
Myth # 6: Women over 35 are more at risk to have complications during pregnancy and childbirth
Most women after 35 can give birth to a healthy child on their own, without any complications.
The risk of complications during pregnancy and childbirth is really growing, if a woman gives birth first child after 35 years. He includes a higher likelihood of developing diabetes, pre-eclampsia, high blood pressure, miscarriage and birth of a child with down syndrome. However, the majority of women in this age can give birth to a healthy child on their own, without any complications.
In General, the levels of certain risks during pregnancy and childbirth do increase as they grow older, women but it is not the most.
There are many reasons why parents prefer to have children after 35 years, for example, financial stability or a more harmonious and peaceful family environment. Takeshi more and more women are choosing to start a family closer to 40 years, it is time for us to put an end to the negative and often sexist attitude toward women? Outdated terminology requires a major overhaul.
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