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[quote=Anonymous]I had my third at 34 (2 months before turning 35). I am extremely risk adverse and had amniocentesis with my second (at 31) and third (at 34). DH and I had genetic tests done with our third (not sure those were available with previous pregnancies). We really wanted to rule out any abnormalities and knew we would terminate if something was wrong. 
However, the geneticist at our appointment told us that while we did all screenings we could, we only covered about 30% of possible conditions. There are many other issues they don’t test for. I believe they also said that 1 in 10 (or perhaps was 1 out of 100) babies are born with some sort of malformation.

My point is that while risks are low, they are there.

By having a third, you are increasing your chances that something goes wrong.

All of my children are fine for now, but they could develop something later on or have a learning disability (my third is only 4).

I feel so lucky that I had 3 healthy (at least for now) children, but looking back and knowing how hard it is with 3, I feel we would not have survived having a third child with disabilities. We are stretched thin as it is and all my kids need always more (and it increases as they get older).

For what is worth, I was “young” but my husband is 11 years older than me and was 46 when our third was born.

Good luck OP[/quote]

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