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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It hit me the second I gave birth. Seriously. I was 40 and didn't have a wrinkle on my face. No forehead lines, no crows feet, nothing. By 41, lack of sleep, poor diet, not enough time for exercising, left me with crows feet, dry skin, and the first signs of wrinkles on my forehead. Unbelievable that all this happened in one year.[/quote]

Huh? Do you mean when you gave birth in you 30s and then you aged when you hit 40?[/quote]

I was 40 when I gave birth.[/quote]

Oh ok, I think that births later in life tend to wear you down more than those earlier on.[/quote]

The pro of having kids later is you look good until you have them. The decline for most women is post kids and menopause years.[/quote]

I hate blanket statements like this.

for my mother, all of my aunts on her side, both of my grandmothers and my great-grandmothers, there was no decline after having kids.  They were all small builds.  And this includes my mother having my brother in her mid 30s.

All of the women in my family were fine up through their 40s.  Menopause did kind of have an effect.  Wrinkles weren't so much the issue as much as a change in metabolism and a little weight gain (nothing severe, though).

My suspicion is that the drastic and relatively permanent hormonal change of menopause really effected metabolism.  None of the women in my family ever had to actively watch what they ate or fit in formal exercise (they were all active/nervous types with cleaning and gardening type things, but none of them lifted weights or ran or did strength training or cardio).  I think that it likely hurt them that they didn't have a lot of muscle tone or a formal exercise routine.

So I think the real driver of visible aging in women is the combination of genetics and hormonal shifts.  Pregnancy is a hormonal shift, but all of the women in my family actually found pregnancy to be a time they felt really healthy and energized.  It was menopause that seemed to hit hard.[/quote]

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