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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While some women certainly have had children over the age of Forty in the past, it has never been routine.

Personally,,I wouldn't do it, particularly for a first child, but if you are able to conceive and want to, it's your decision.[/quote]

It's becoming much more common and has not been rare for the last 100 years.

[url]http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/life/entertainment/story/2013/aug/15/delaying-the-diapers/115841/[/url]
[quote]...is among a growing number of women in their 40s who are having babies, many for the first time, studies show. According to data from the National Center for Health Statistics, in American women ages 40 to 44, birthrates have hit their highest point since 1967. Births have also become increasingly common among women in their late 30s.

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Older motherhood is not a new phenomena. [b]During the 1940s and '50s[/b], when baby boomers were being born,[b] fortysomething motherhood was common[/b], with many women having the last of their three, four or more children well into middle age. But those numbers cratered during the '60s and '70s, when the baby boom ran its course.[/quote]
[url]http://fortune.com/2016/01/14/babies-over-40/[/url]
[quote]More women over age 40 are having children, according to a new National Vital Statistics Report from the Centers for Disease Control. Here’s how it breaks down: For women 40 to 44, the birth rate ticked up 2% from 2013 to 2014. And while the stats for those aged to 45 to 49 held steady during that timeframe, more women over 50 had babies in 2014: 743 births, compared to 677 in 2013.[/quote]
National Vital Statistics Report
[url]http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_12.pdf[/url]
[quote]Women in their 40s—The birth rate for women aged 40–44 was 10.6 births per 1,000 women in 2014, up 2% from 2013 (10.4) (Tables 4 and 8). The rate for women in this age group generally has risen over the last three decades (Figure 4). The number of births to women in their early 40s was essentially unchanged from 2013 to 2014. The birth rate for women aged 45–49 (which includes births to women aged 50 and over) was 0.8 births per 1,000 women in 2014, unchanged from 2013. The number of births to women aged 45–49 rose 3% from 2013 to 2014[/quote]

For comparison, births for mothers 40-44 and 45-49
[code]
Year     Maternal age 40-44 (births per 1000)
2014     10.6
2010     10.2
2000      8.0
1990      5.5
1980      3.9
1970      8.1
[/code]

There were about 3.7M births in 1970 and about 4M births in 2014.  So there were about 30K births to mothers over the age of 40 in 1970 and about 42K births to mothers over the age of 40 in 2014.  Hardly rare and I would say that is routine enough.

The numbers are also rising in the UK and Australia.[/quote]

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