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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To twist the question - what age is your husband's cutoff (especially if you have an older husband). Is his by 40 too or is 50 ok? What about above 50?[/quote]

My Husbands cut off was my cut off because I was the one carrying the child. I am also older then him so that was a factor.

Different people have different risk thresholds. What seems to me like a perfectly reasonable risk, a 5% chance of having a child with Downs when I was 40, strikes someone else as far more risky.

Just because I was more risk acceptant does not mean that someone else's concerns are not valid.

My OBGYN let me know that I was considered a high risk pregnancy because of my age but she also explained that was the only reason. My personal health history was not problematic and there was no reason to believe that I was going to have problems during my pregnancy. Because of my AMA, I was able to see my doctor more regularly and she was looking for early indications of possible issues.

We ended up with one child because I did not get pregnant a second time and we did not want to risk a multiple child birth by having fertility treatments. And then we finally started getting enough sleep (DS was an awful sleeper) and the idea of reliving the sleep deprivation with another new born was abhorrent. So we stopped trying when I was 42.

But that cut off is going to be different for different people for a wide variety of reasons. [/quote]

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