Older Women Having Babies Essay

the trend for a while now for women to have babies in their 30s instead of in their 20s. The question that needs to be answered is if older parenthood involves more risks with women’s health, pregnancy, and birth. According to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), birth rates among women aged 30-34 exceeded those women aged 25-29 in the US in 2016 and this is the first time this happened in thirty years. Currently, the average age for women who are having their first child is 28 years

For the mother, babies can make them feel and appear younger. In the early to mid-twenties is when a woman will have the most energy but are much less likely than a woman over 35 to be financially stable, be established in their work life and have the resources to look after and care for a baby. Older women will also have more life experience and maturity to draw on in rearing a child and looking after a baby. Younger mothers are known to sometimes feel resentful at having to postpone their jobs

Babies born to women aged in their 40s tend to have low birth weights. This is generally a result of premature birth and bad because the baby has less time to grow and develop in the womb and is therefore more vulnerable to pretty much everything. It makes it hard for the baby to fight off infection, keep warm, gain weight, feed, and it can also cause breathing problems due to low oxygen levels at birth and sudden infant death syndrome. Low birth weight can also be a result of placental insufficiency

Doctors may let older women know who are pregnant or who are expecting to get pregnant (generally over age 35), that there is more of a chance for birth defects at this age just because their bodies aren’t in the best condition and because their bodies may have a harder time carrying or providing the best care to their baby that the baby needs, compared to someone who is younger. Doctors also tell patients after they have their first child the risks of having more children as they get older since they

born women have around a million eggs, by the time they reach their mid-thirties this number will have dropped to around 25,000. Unfortunately, a woman’s best quality eggs will likely have been used up when younger, meaning the ones left over are of a worse quality and therefore less fertile. Women also release fewer eggs when they get older. In terms of successful IVF treatment (which is more often used by older women), for women under 35 years the success rate is around 27%, but for women over

were performed in the U.S.(Loxa Famosity). Abortion is the medical or surgical term of pregnancy(Hodes). Abortion is ending the life of a baby inside the mom’s womb. Life starts at the moment of conception. Abortion has been around since the beginning of civilization(Guernsey). A person that has an abortion at an older age around 16-older do not belong having an abortion. They are old enough to know what they are doing or what they want. Abortion happens in many ways, surgical or pills. Other

birth outweigh the risks of a Caesarean section to mother and baby. Pregnancy occurs when a sperm and egg unite, this is called conception. A zygote is created, in one week the zygote attaches itself on the uterine wall, and in two weeks becomes an embryo. Week 10 of pregnancy the embryo turns into a fetus. The fetus develops more and more for 28 weeks. Around 39-40 weeks, a woman can go into labor. Labor is when the mother starts having contractions, and the baby’s head starts dropping into the

after World War II, The largest generation was born. We called them the baby boomers. In 1946, 3.4 million were born, another 3.8 million in 1947 and more than 4 million every year from 1954 until 1964 when the numbers finally went down. The baby boomers made up 40% of the nations population and thats about 76.4 million of them in total. The desire for normalcy after the war and depression is a possible explanation for the baby boom according to historians, others say it was apart of the campaign

chromosome 21. This additional piece of genetic makeup leads to changes throughout the body. Some of the notable changes are having a low muscle tone, small stature, an upward slant to the eyes, and a deep crevice in the center of the palm. Down syndrome does not affect one single part of the body, it affects the whole body. Down syndrome has many affects on the body. These affects are having a distinct facial appearance, some intellectual disabilities, developmental delays, learning disabilities, short stature

children. Why would they do this? How would a baby boom change Italy's demographics? Western European countries are giving monetary incentives to employees with multiple children because their population is decreasing and they want the population to increase. The average birth rate is 1.28 children per woman, not enough children are born to replace their parents. A baby boom would increase the population in Italy, that generation will then have more babies and cause an increase in population.