We've all heard it before: 'You should try to have babies before you turn 35.'
. For women aged 40 to 44, first birth rates have increased fourfold from the mid-eighties to 2012.
Doctors tend to treat women who fall into this category with special care. Older moms are often encouraged to have more testing and repeatedly reminded of their age, which, naturally, not everyone is thrilled with. Kate also remembers being worried about her risk of having a baby with health complications. She and her husband had a “really intense” meeting with a genetic counselor at the hospital during her pregnancy, who laid out her birth-defect risks in a way that freaked her out. “If I had been given the choice, I would have rather not known,” she says. “What’s the point? You’re already pregnant.
Older moms are at a higher risk of having a miscarriage, gestational diabetes, and high blood pressure than their younger counterparts, says Christine Greves, M.D., a board-certified ob-gyn at the Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies. There's also a higher risk of down syndrome. Women who are 35 have a one in 350 chance of having a baby with Down syndrome, per the, which offers up a chart that breaks down a woman’s risk by her age.
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