Late childbirth

The best childbearing age is 20-27 years. But recently more and more women decide to give birth late. There are several reasons for this. Some want to have a solid foundation for creating a full-fledged family to have the opportunity to give the child everything they need. Others were busy building their own career, for which the baby could be a hindrance. Still others decided to just give birth to a baby - maybe a second or a third. Someone managed to become pregnant only at an older age. The reasons for all are different, but the statistics of late births argue that about 20% of children are born by women after 30. Earlier old-timers, or age-related relatives, counted girls at the age of 25 and even 20 years. To date, this bar has been pushed back to 35 years. A woman planning a pregnancy at this age should take a responsible approach to such a serious matter.

Late childbirth: for and against

In any case, childbirth is a painful and wonderful way to meet with one's own little one. When a woman decides to give birth to a child after 30 years, this has its advantages:

  1. By this age, the future mother is an established personality. Pregnancy for her is a well-considered and planned step. The child is most often coveted, and the pregnant woman is more serious about the recommendations of doctors, to her health.
  2. After 30 many women have already made progress in the career. In a family where a late child is born, as a rule, there is material prosperity.
  3. The future mother has a valuable life experience that will help her in raising a child.
  4. After late pregnancy and childbirth, the hormonal background changes so much that a woman feels refreshed and experiences a "second" youth.

But what are the risks of late birth?

Undoubtedly, with all the advantages of late births, like the medal, there is a downside:

  1. More often than not, by the age of 30, a woman has a "baggage" of health problems: chronic illnesses, smoking, poor nutrition. The risk of late delivery is also that the pregnancy is more severe, the age-related relatives are more often hospitalized.
  2. The consequences of late delivery include the probability of the birth of children with hereditary diseases, developmental anomalies (for example, with Down syndrome).
  3. By the age of 30, most women already have gynecological diseases, past infections, inflammations. Diseases have difficulties not only with planning, but also with the course of pregnancy and childbirth itself.
  4. With late first births, most often a cesarean section is done because of low labor activity.

Features of late delivery

Because of the natural aging of the body after the third decade, the woman exacerbates chronic diseases. This affects the course of pregnancy - there are problems such as hypertension of the uterus, gestosis, anemia, high blood pressure, perenashivanie. And the future mother has to go to the hospital.

To exclude the development of fetal pathologies, women need to undergo special examinations - chorio-centesis, amniocentesis and cordocentesis, which will help to identify possible chromosomal abnormalities.

The first late delivery usually ends with a caesarean section. The muscles of the parturient child are less elastic. Her joints begin to lose elasticity, which makes the pelvic bone diverter more difficult. So there is a weak labor activity, which is dangerous for the child and mother.

The second late delivery is faster and more successful, because the body of the woman has already experienced stretching and opening for the opening of the birth canal.

With all possible risks, a woman should try to become a mother after 30 or 40 years. It is important to follow all the recommendations of the doctor, undergo the necessary examinations and listen to the body. You need to feel confident in the successful outcome of late labor. By the way, the most recent births in history took place when the woman in labor was 70 years old! True, she managed to get pregnant by means of an IVF donor egg.