(There’s no ‘right time’ to give birth, but later motherhood has advantages – its growth shouldn’t be greeted with wrist-slapping)
According to new statistics the female population of England and Wales are giving birth at rates not seen since the baby boom at the end of the second world war, and while the number of teenage pregnancies is declining, an increasing proportion of new babies are being born to older mothers. How should we greet such news? Pop the champagne corks, roll the red carpet out in front of your nearest maternity ward … or bemoan the 20 wasted years when these women were “failing” to make babies? Read more on:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/01/give-older-mothers-a-break
Mariella Frostrup, 50, is a Norwegian-born journalist and television presenter, well known on British TV and radio, mainly for arts programmes. She writes for The Guardian/uk. She is a new older mother of two children.