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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would love to have a second but I just feel that 41 is too old.  Maybe not now but I bet I'll really feel it in my mid-50s.  To those who have the life experience, what are your thoughts?[/quote]

Just remember that you will die while your child is relatively young.[/quote]

There is no guarantee about that regardless of parental age.  I've known friends who had their kids in their 40's who are still going strong in their 70's and unlikely to pass any time soon except by accident.  I had one friend, age 50, in good health (a former marine working for NASA) who dropped dead completely unexpectedly of a heart attack at work one day.  His daughter was 12 at the time.  I had another pair of friends in their mid 50's who died when a drunken jackass cross the median of a divided highway and hit their car head-on and kill them both.  Their daughter was orphaned at age 14.  I've had a friend die of cancer in their 50's leaving three children under the age of 15 behind.  And my parents, age 80 and 87 and my mother-in-law 81 are all around to see and enjoy our 2 year old twins because we had our children in our 40's and we are both the youngest children in our respective families.

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