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Originally Posted by bunniswife
Hi and thanks for this. Although I am not pregnant and will not be getting pregnant again, I was pregnant with my twins at age thirty seven. It's very true that older ladies face issues during pregnancy that younger women don't usually have to worry about. For me, it was one pregnancy that ended in miscarriage due to a chromosome disorder and the heart defect my son Calvin was born with and later died from. Those two things themselves convinced me that I was not willing to take the chance at anything going wrong again. As well, I found that pregnancy was harder on my body this last time around, even though I was thirty four when my first daughter was born. Older women are more likely to suffer from gestational diabetes, chromosome disorders, more difficulty getting pregnant and a higher rate of miscarriage.
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Oh, great. Just what I need... MORE WORRY!! (kidding)
It was tough feeling that my reproductive life was over before I wanted it to be, but thank god, it seems like maybe it's not. If these two make it, I will be good and ready for my reproductive life to be over. But I'll be OLD by the time they're born (which means, of course, that I'm already old - older than anyone else on here I've seen).