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[quote=Anonymous]I had my first at 39 and my second at 42 with no interventions. I was nervous the whole second pregnancy that there would be complications of some kind. I am very lucky and very grateful to have had healthy pregnancy, healthy children, and no identified special needs as of yet (they’re still young). I was nervous about that before getting pregnant too. One thing that helped was DH and I talked a lot about options and agreed that we would terminate if any of the early testing showed high risk of abnormalities. I also met with the doctor to better understand the age associated risks. For some things, a higher risk is still pretty low risk. That helped. But those things really just made me feel better about our choice - they didn’t help me decide. We both really really wanted another child, and we wanted our oldest to have a sibling. So we went for it, and like I said, we were really lucky.

I’m not too worried about parenting teens because of my age - lots of other reasons, sure - but not my age. Nor am I worried about how old I’ll be when they’re middle aged, if I live that long. There are no guarantees about any of that, even if I’d had kids in my 20s. I just love them hard and do my best to take care of myself so I’m doing my part to live a long life. [/quote]

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