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If your pregnancy is otherwise uncomplicated, does just being an older mom put you at risk for complications at birth?

Some would tell you that it does, but how much is simply the doctor's attitude against older women in general?

How much is caused by the doctor's interference during labor?

Yes, there CAN be increased risks due to your age and health status.

But plenty of older moms have complication-free births, even with first babies.

It is not up to anybody else to decide if she should be allowed to have a a child at her advanced age.

From Home Birth Reference Site:

Where there are no tangible medical complications of pregnancy, the risks of childbirth in older women are no greater than in younger women
- Editorial, British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology,
Volume 108, Issue 9, September 2001

Our fears concerning increasing maternal age in pregnancy arose from unsophisticated surveys conducted many years ago which showed an apparent increase in risk; these surveys did not have the capacity to adjust adequately for confounding variables. Yet the teaching is handed down, that older women are at a higher risk in pregnancy and childbirth.

- Editor's Choice, by John M Grant
British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Volume 108, Issue 9, September 2001

Read more: Home Birth Reference Site

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It was seven years ago, and Pascal was in her 40th year. The birth, attended by her husband and three midwives, was bloody, wrenching and joyous. And baby Aaron? The picture of health.

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