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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many Debbie Downers on this thread.  And you all seem  to be tremendously  out of shape.  I had my kids at 41 and 45, I am now 61 and my kids and I train for our century bike rides every weekend.

Get off the couch! Who could possibly be tired in their 40s and 50s??[/quote]

Talk to us when you're 71, or 75, and a new grandmother and can't do squat with your grandkids and are simply a burden on everybody.

-- 61 year old with three grandkids who can actually lend a hand[/quote]

My mother had me at 36 and is turning 79 next week.  I'm dropping my 7 year old with her later this afternoon for a three-day stay.  She is a huge help and certainly not a burden on anyone. 
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Look you can argue whatever you want, but there’s no denying that biology doesn’t favor mothers in their 40s and that[b] having kids that late isn’t natural.  
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Many of my friends' parents were in their early 50s when their grandkids were born. Grandparents were too young and too busy with their own lives, careers, and divorces to help and had no desire to babysit.[/quote][/quote]

This is not true at all. It was actually  common for women's last  children in centuries past to be born when women were in their early 40s.

https://bloomlife.com/preg-u/advanced-maternal-age/

Bonus is that women who have children in their 40s are more likely to live longer than women who don't.  
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This.
Some of you need to examine your family trees prior to the introduction of reliable birth control.  It was NOT uncommon for women in their 40s to get pregnant.[/quote]

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