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Today at work, over tea, women were discussing having children after age 40. They shared examples of acquaintances and strangers who gave birth at 43, 44, or 45, and everyone believed that having a healthy baby after 40 is almost impossible. They talked about potential illnesses in the mother that could be passed to the child. I see it differently: there are still a few years left before 40, and I started wondering if I might be wrong. Please share if you also feel this way, or if you have personal experience. I’ve always believed that if we can financially provide for our children, I would have a baby at 40, at 45, or even later — but the question of the baby’s health remains important.
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Tatyana
Life can feel like a lottery, and even at twenty, anything can happen. Pregnancy, in particular, is unpredictable.
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Lena Pugacheva
Do you think a baby's health doesn't depend on the mother's age? This is, to some extent, supported by science. Of course, not every baby is born with abnormalities. But the risks are higher than for younger mothers.
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Irina
I'm glad to report that all the kids in my circle are healthy.
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Kristina
In my experience, after 40 it's harder to carry a pregnancy and to sleep through the night.
Healthy or not, it can happen at age 20 as well as at 40.
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Ievleva kseniya
When I was 24 and again at 29, I gave birth to children who have lifelong disabilities. So this isn’t something that depends on age.
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Yakovleva "Nastenka"
Lena Pugacheva Scientifically, it has been shown that paternal age has the greater influence.
A woman's body is more likely to miscarry pregnancies when the defects are due to egg quality.
The study was conducted in the United States and collected and analyzed data over about 33 to 36 years.
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Olga
In my circle, there are healthy kids—both at age 40 and at age 43.
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Marina
The risk of having a child with health problems is higher. This is true even at age 20. However, in my circle, the children born to mothers over 40 are healthy.
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Anyutik
Having a healthy baby at this age is possible, but the risks are higher. If I had to choose, I would probably not have a child after 40, not because I fear a baby being unhealthy, but because the risks to my own health are greater. Knowing my health, I don't think I could carry a pregnancy at that age; I would feel overwhelmed and fall apart.
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Natasha
My aunt has a healthy child. She gave birth at age 43. The truth is, for about three years she couldn't carry a pregnancy to term, and she had about four miscarriages.
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Masha Kruglushina
I haven't seen many children with illnesses among parents over 40, but among younger parents there are many sick children. Pregnant women go about like old grandmothers—sometimes it hurts, sometimes they complain, the tests are bad, there are a million little illnesses. Just take a look at this forum to see how old some of these parents are.
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Ievleva kseniya
Lena Pugacheva At that time, my husband was 30 and I was 35.
Genetics on our side played a cruel joke on us.
There is no one in our family—nor anyone our parents can recall—who has this illness, but both of my children were affected.
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Alena Kaptilevskaya
There are also 18-year-olds.
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Ruzanna
Yes, all ages are welcome.
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Lena Pugacheva
Lena Pugacheva Okay, I won’t argue. This is more about the father.
Does a mother's age, according to this study, actually matter, or is the father's age more influential? The wording is important in this case.
Are these studies accepted in our country?
Also, you should know that in the United States pregnancies aren’t typically carried beyond 12 weeks, so there may be more abortions there, whereas here pregnancies are carried to 4 weeks, which leaves little room for natural selection.
And it's still rare for a 40-year-old to have a child with a 20-year-old.
And for men, according to this study, at what age does sperm quality begin to decline?
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Yakovleva "Nastenka"
Lena Pugacheva After 35, it certainly deteriorates.
In our country, soon only studies from Afghanistan and North Korea will be accepted—not from the USA—so that point is definitely not an argument.
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Lena Pugacheva
Lena Pugacheva Whether it happens or not, it's just talk. In the past, even with good relationships, not everything was accepted. But that's not always a bad thing.
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