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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am 42 and have 3 beautiful smart perfect children. I would absolutely go for another if it weren’t for my age. I know plenty of women my age who have/had/want children but most of them married later. I got married at age 29 and had 3 kids during my 30s.

Would you go for a fourth child at age 42?

I did conceive all of my children in the first or second month of trying so I was very fertile.[/quote]

Yours is (was) a very common situation in the past - a woman gets married young, has several kids in the prime babymaking years, and then gets a surprise late pregnancy that's sort of a swan song.  If you are up for it, your finances and health are good, and you can afford some support, go for it.  I'd say with three children under your belt already, you probably would be free of the annoying preciousness that affects first-time mothers at 42.

I'm 48 and had my third at almost-45 but we started late.  We had a surprise oops a few months ago when we had to think long and hard what to do with, but ultimately decided that at 47, we were too old.  At 42, you are not too old.  I mean you're on the older side but you are not outrageously old.  The fact that you married earlier and have three kids already is a plus. [/quote]

wow, I have not heard of that often at 47. Do you think it was viable?[/quote]

Who knows.  We were ridiculously fertile so I wouldn't exclude the possibility. Unlikely though.  We didn't wait long enough to find out![/quote]

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