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Lo Timbalake		#61	[-]
Posts: 9701 (04/16/2009 11:43 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	I have no interest in getting married until I am about 30, let alone having babies!
SparklyBlonde		#62	[-]
Posts: 27738 (04/16/2009 11:47 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	SelFish wrote: RandomnessRocks22 wrote: There is more of chance that the baby will have downs etc if you have a baby later in life. Hahahahah....Can I please see your medical degree? You don't need a degree of any sort to know that. It's common knowledge.
MuppetGrrl		#63	[-]
Posts: 74772 (04/16/2009 11:49 AM) JJB Debater '03 Most Intelligent '04 '06 Grammar Cop '05 Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	You should definetly have them before 35. It is harder to get pregnant after that. Don't believe all the hype that these late 30/ 40 year old actresses had them naturally. Most of them have had ivf and more. They can afford the best and if you can't, you should not wait. Three friends of mine have gotten pregnant in the last three years after 35. One from a broken condom, one after extensive fibroid surgery. None had any problem getting pregnant. My sister-in-law started trying to conceive at 32 and two years later, has had no luck. Getting older has an effect on your fertility and the risk factors for Down's, etc., for certain, but suggesting that "most" women post-35 have had "IVF and more" is an excellent example of how 72% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
SelFish		#64	[-]
Posts: 7527 (04/16/2009 11:55 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	SparklyBlonde wrote: SelFish wrote: RandomnessRocks22 wrote: There is more of chance that the baby will have downs etc if you have a baby later in life. Hahahahah....Can I please see your medical degree? You don't need a degree of any sort to know that. It's common knowledge. I know that, actually. But medicine has come a long way, and there are high risks of everything, not just Downs Syndrome. People assume if you have a child at 37 it will have DS when a 20 year old can have a baby with that as well.
RandomnessRocks22		#65	[-]
Posts: 11799 (04/16/2009 12:13 PM) Most Random '08 Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	LMFAO at someone not knowing that. Its common knowledge not to mention my mom who IS a medical degree is how I know it.
bigredmunkeebutt		#66	[-]
Posts: 12341 (04/16/2009 12:35 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	SelFish wrote: SparklyBlonde wrote: SelFish wrote: RandomnessRocks22 wrote: There is more of chance that the baby will have downs etc if you have a baby later in life. Hahahahah....Can I please see your medical degree? You don't need a degree of any sort to know that. It's common knowledge. I know that, actually. But medicine has come a long way, and there are high risks of everything, not just Downs Syndrome. People assume if you have a child at 37 it will have DS when a 20 year old can have a baby with that as well. A woman's risk of having a baby with Down Syndrome only increases by ONE percent after age 35. My best friend's OB/GYN told her this, when she was pregnant with her third child, at age 34- who is healthy as a horse, by the way. I was born a month before my mom's 44th birthday, my husband was born when his mom was 42, my best friend's mom was 38 when she was born, another friend's mom was 40...I could go on and on, and we are all perfectly FINE. In case anyone actually wanted to know, from pregnancy-info.net- Down syndrome : the incidence of Down syndrome increases from 1 in 10,000 for 20 year old mothers to about 3 in 1,000 for 35 year old mothers and 1 in 100 for 40 year old mothers; this may be due to the fact that an older woman's eggs have been exposed to more x-rays, drugs and infections than a younger woman's eggs. Down syndrome isn't preventable, but it can be identified before birth during a prenatal exam. See? Not that big of a jump, at least not till 40- and not always, even then. A lot of the ''Hurry up and make healthy babies, NOW while you still can!'' stuff is old wives' tales. Edited By: bigredmunkeebutt 04/16/2009 12:50 PM. Edited 1 times.
edved75		#67	[-]
Posts: 2540 (04/16/2009 12:37 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	DunderMifflinInc wrote: Congrats, Edved! Good luck with this birth! Awww, thanks, Dunder!
coboardgirl		#68	[-]
Posts: 7129 (04/16/2009 12:54 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	I think it has to do with where you are in your life. If you haven't found your SO by 30, don't have a stable home, don't have money saved in the bank, etc, it obviously doesn't make sense to go out having babies. However at 26 and 27, my husband and I had our first son and we were ready. We'd been together 8 years by that time, we were both through with school and had good paying, stable jobs, we had bought a home that is a good size for a family, we had plenty of time with "just us" before our son came... the timing was just right. If I wern't in such a great situation though, I wouldn't have dreamed of having kids at 26.
xxGirlxxFixerxx		#69	[-]
Posts: 1831 (04/16/2009 12:57 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	I don't think it's weird. My parents had me when they were 26, and my brother when they were 31. I met a lot of kids when I started University at 18, whose parents were well into their 50s and some even 60s. I guess it would kind of suck to have a parent at 18 that is approaching senior age but ultimately it's not the worst thing. I know a lot people thought it was weird that my parents were in their mid-40's with an 18 year old
mountaineer9		#70	[-]
Posts: 1085 (04/16/2009 1:01 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	My mom was 38 when she had me. The only bad thing is I do not have any grandparents left.
savvysupernova		#71	[-]
Posts: 3982 (04/16/2009 1:27 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	My parents were in their 50s when I graduated HS, and so were most of the other kids' parents I knew. I have always planned on having kids in my 30s, just like my parents did. In my family, 20s is almost considered "too young."
SelFish		#72	[-]
Posts: 7529 (04/16/2009 1:46 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	bigredmunkeebutt wrote: SelFish wrote: SparklyBlonde wrote: SelFish wrote: RandomnessRocks22 wrote: There is more of chance that the baby will have downs etc if you have a baby later in life. Hahahahah....Can I please see your medical degree? You don't need a degree of any sort to know that. It's common knowledge. I know that, actually. But medicine has come a long way, and there are high risks of everything, not just Downs Syndrome. People assume if you have a child at 37 it will have DS when a 20 year old can have a baby with that as well. A woman's risk of having a baby with Down Syndrome only increases by ONE percent after age 35. My best friend's OB/GYN told her this, when she was pregnant with her third child, at age 34- who is healthy as a horse, by the way. I was born a month before my mom's 44th birthday, my husband was born when his mom was 42, my best friend's mom was 38 when she was born, another friend's mom was 40...I could go on and on, and we are all perfectly FINE. In case anyone actually wanted to know, from pregnancy-info.net- Down syndrome : the incidence of Down syndrome increases from 1 in 10,000 for 20 year old mothers to about 3 in 1,000 for 35 year old mothers and 1 in 100 for 40 year old mothers; this may be due to the fact that an older woman's eggs have been exposed to more x-rays, drugs and infections than a younger woman's eggs. Down syndrome isn't preventable, but it can be identified before birth during a prenatal exam. See? Not that big of a jump, at least not till 40- and not always, even then. A lot of the ''Hurry up and make healthy babies, NOW while you still can!'' stuff is old wives' tales. Thank you, this was basically my point. Creamie, you can LYFAO all you want, it wasn't that I didn't know that, it's just there are many factors that play into that. Not everyone with a DS child is older.
taniaoakley		#73	[-]
Posts: 3400 (04/16/2009 1:58 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	A woman's risk of having a baby with Down Syndrome only increases by ONE percent after age 35 Down syndrome : the incidence of Down syndrome increases from 1 in 10,000 for 20 year old mothers to about 3 in 1,000 for 35 year old mothers and 1 in 100 for 40 year old mothers; this may be due to the fact that an older woman's eggs have been exposed to more x-rays, drugs and infections than a younger woman's eggs. Down syndrome isn't preventable, but it can be identified before birth during a prenatal exam. Sorry, but that's not 1%... that's 3,000%. The risk after 35, although still small, has increased by 3,000% from the risk of a 20 year old. The 40 year old has a 10,000% increased risk from the 20 year old.
bigredmunkeebutt		#74	[-]
Posts: 12348 (04/16/2009 2:02 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	^^ I didn't say it was. My friend's doctor told HER that it was. THIS particular web site has THIS particular number. Either way, it's not like the instant you turn 35, you're doomed to have a baby with Down Syndrome. Many, many women over 35 and over 40 have PERFECTLY healthy babies, every day, without fertility drugs or other interventions.
taniaoakley		#75	[-]
Posts: 3401 (04/16/2009 2:08 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	I didn't say you did. I was just correcting the percentage because it bugged me. Your friend's doctor is wrong.
MissyJG		#76	[-]
Posts: 2248 (04/16/2009 2:09 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	I do not plan on having kids before 30.
Semirhage626		#77	[-]
Posts: 6166 (04/16/2009 2:34 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	MuppetGrrl wrote: You should definetly have them before 35. It is harder to get pregnant after that. Don't believe all the hype that these late 30/ 40 year old actresses had them naturally. Most of them have had ivf and more. They can afford the best and if you can't, you should not wait. Three friends of mine have gotten pregnant in the last three years after 35. One from a broken condom, one after extensive fibroid surgery. None had any problem getting pregnant. My sister-in-law started trying to conceive at 32 and two years later, has had no luck. Getting older has an effect on your fertility and the risk factors for Down's, etc., for certain, but suggesting that "most" women post-35 have had "IVF and more" is an excellent example of how 72% of all statistics are made up on the spot. You are awesome

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