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Apr
Is 45 Too Old To Have A Baby. Now as i approach 50 and am positively menopausal I do get very irritable and shout at them rather more than I think I would if I was younger and not so hormonalbut I am hoping to emerge out of the other side a calmer nicer person before too. One of the midwives tried to talk me into aborting with all kinds of scary statistics. My goal was to have a baby. The second pregnancy particularly was trouble free the birth was relatively easy and she was a great sleeper as a baby so I wasnt too tired.
I am 45 and have a child under 2 years old. At 45 years old that chance will have increased to 1 in 35. A pregnancy after age 35 automatically puts you in the advanced maternal age AMA. Once youre over 30 the chance of getting pregnant decreases by. Can you have a normal healthy pregnancy at 45. Most people are much more prepared to have a baby at 46 then they would have been at 26 or even 36.
At age 40 you have a 5 to 10 potential of naturally conceiving with the odds falling less than 5 when you turn 45.
I dont think 45 is too old for a baby and I am very pro choice but I wouldnt abort on that basis if that was your only reason. So many men become dads at that age or older and we dont bat an eyelid. Sitting here now I realize that I really didnt think about what would happen once the baby arrived. Forty-six is not too old to have a baby. The only problem is - am I too old at 46. Now as i approach 50 and am positively menopausal I do get very irritable and shout at them rather more than I think I would if I was younger and not so hormonalbut I am hoping to emerge out of the other side a calmer nicer person before too.