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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Young women aren't basing their fertility choices on Natalie Portman. She is not relevant to anyone under 35.

I remember when I got married and my DH and I were discussing when to have kids, he mentioned something about a celebrity having kids in her mid or late 40s. I was only 29 at the time, but I quickly educated him on what it takes to have kids at that age (money, luck, and more money) and told him no way I wanted to wait until my 40s at all. Men might get the wrong idea from these stories because they don't live in female bodies and don't know how they work. But any woman who intentionally delayed her first pregnancy until her 40s just because she heard Natalie Portman had a baby at 44 is dumb and likely shouldn't be passing on her genes anyway.

Best wishes to Ms. Portman. Glad she has plenty of resources to help her through it, having an infant in your mid-40s sounds like both a blessing and a curse. Not for me.[/quote]

Which is it? Because many, many people are in here talking about how normal and common mid to late 40s pregnancies are. Why would you need to educate your husband when he seems to believe what so many others in here believe? We’ve had how many anecdotes about how ordinary this actually is.[/quote]

Most women don’t plan to start having babies in their 40s. And if they are as others have said, they’re too stupid to pass on their genes anyway.

Doesn’t sound like Natalie planned this. She actually had her first child at 30. things didn’t work out with our first husband. She’s dating another guy and it sounds like this is a miracle and a blessing. Natalie is smart and educated, it sounds like they were open to a baby and weren’t using birth control, and yeah, she is very fortunate to get pregnant at this age. People realize this.

If it didn’t work out, she’d probably be OK because she has two kids. And if she really really wanted a third kid, they could’ve used a donor egg which is very accessible if you have a lot of money.

No one is saying it is as common to have babies in your 40s as it it is when you are younger. But this idea that it is a total impossibility is not right either. some women remain fertile in their early to mid 40s. It just is what it is.

The main argument that everyone seems to agree on except for this one obstinate poster is that a 25-year-old is not reading this people magazine article and saying “sweet! I have 19 more years!” Most women know general information about fertility and that it gets harder as you get older. [/quote]

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