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[quote=Anonymous]When I was little I was very close to my grandmother and great grandmother as well. I had my great until I was 12 and my grandma until I was 35. I honestly think it’s far less than ideal to have grandparents in their 70s when you are a baby, and parents who are the age of many grandparents. I don’t think the collision of puberty and perimenopause is at all ideal - my mother waited to have me until 30, then had a hysterectomy at 40 - she was chronically angry, aggravated, annoyed my entire preteens and teens and I always envied my friends who had younger moms who laughed and had fun with us.

I didn’t get to have children in my early twenties when I wanted to. I didn’t want to have them in my 40s when I was also struggling with GYN issues and onset of perimenopause. I definitely bitterly regret not having them young when I wanted to, but I more bitterly regret that we don’t have policies to support mothers and children at any age. If we did, we wouldn’t be staring down an alarming decline in birth rates.[/quote]

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