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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with the above, although I would caution women against thinking you can start making babies in your 40s.  Some of us can.  I did, but (and this is significant) I had already made babies.  First time baby-making in your 40s is a recipe for fertility treatments and adoption.[/quote]

This is way off-topic, but I can't let this go unaddressed.  Many people (like me) have their first babies in their 40s without issue.  Certainly, a lot of women have infertility problems as their age increases, but it's still far from everyone.[/quote]

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[/b]Statistically, a 40 year old woman has a 1 in 5 chance of getting pregnant every single month she tries. Obviously not the fertility most of us have in our 20s, but certainly not automatically relegated to fertility treatments and adoptions.

I know plenty of people who had first children in their 40s.  The kids were blessed with parents who had already lived very full lives of their own, were in great financial shape, and were more than ready to commit to being parents.[/quote]

The timely article on CNN today says less than 1% chance every month for women over 40.

Can you back that up? I thought that was the probability for a younger woman.[/quote]

I was told a 5% chance at 40, not 1 in 5.[/quote][/quote]

yeah this is off topic but 1 in 5 chance monthly for over 40, that must be the in vitro rate or some other fertility treatment, not natural. Plus for many couples the real bogeyman of advanced maternal age is not an inability to have kids, but an ability to have kids at higher risk for serious problems, or a problematic pregnancy. not to disparage others' choices, but those risks are real and must be taken into account. The popular discussion of fertility often glosses over this.

back to the topic, for the record I am not one of the people criticizing silver spring or any place people choose to live. What I have been saying is that if you cannot afford Capitol Hill then you could never have afforded Manhattan or Brooklyn had you stayed in NYC. So your time spent in those places was always destined to be a short period of your life, just accept it. Therefore it makes no sense to come here and say that you are disappointed that DC doesn't have to offer what those parts of NY have to offer.

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Agree. These people who were priced out of Brooklyn and Manhattan are angry because they can only afford silver spring etc. I don't think you were moving to TriBeCa once you had kids, you were destined for Long Island or New Jersey or queens. Nothing wrong with that. But you can't complain about DC being too expensive for you then. [/quote]

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