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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Using age as an overall metric for the mother's health galls me. The OB for my 2nd birth at 42 would regale me with a new vivid account of some risk I was running. He tried to get everyone to induce early since he was a single MD practice with no one covering for him. I always had to google to ascertain that all the gory pictures he was painting had warning symptoms that I didn't have. I don't think a marathoner from a long lived family who conceived in two months at 42 should be lumped in with the general population of 42 year olds.
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THIS is the arrogance I am talking about.

Somehow, this one individual is immune to the researched and evidenced risks of AMA.

Give. Me. A. Break. [/quote]
That’s actually my problem with many women who waited until their 40s to have kids. They tend to think they know better than all of us who had kids in our 20s and 30s.  [/quote]

Or they simply didn’t have the same opportunities that you did. Why do women always have to be divided into warring tribes? Stop falling for it. [/quote]
Well, they probably aren’t the same women getting smug and saying how they’re glad they got to “live a life before they had kids” and “are much better mothers because they waited” there’s no reason to say that to someone who had children decades before you[/quote]

OMG all of you are such a-holes.  More likely those older mothers are defensive because they have been insulted so many times by people like those on this thread.  So many assumptions and generalizations.  PP is correct, stop feeding into the mommy wars.  YOU are part of the problem.  Live your life and stop assuming you know why other people make the decisions they do.[/quote] 
Why are the older moms allowed to be defensive in your scenario but the younger moms are not? I don’t know or care why people make decisions until they make a comment on how I’ve made mine.[/quote]

I'm the older mom that pointed out that different women have different opportunities to have kids early/late. Nothing in my comment was defensive - and yet you're projecting some smug caricature on me. I'm simply asking you to take a step back and realize that older moms and younger moms are on the same team. Stop thinking that only one path to motherhood is 'right'.[/quote]

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