Are you ever too old to have a baby? – The Global Story podcast, BBC World Service
Are you ever too old to have a baby? – The Global Story podcast, BBC World Service
In countries across the world women are deciding to delay motherhood. Increased access to education, more career opportunities and less financial stability means that more and more women are having children later in life.
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😂 I think the problem is they’re talking about urbanization they have an issue because people over 40 are mostly mixed race, black and different race and not too many Caucasians. This is the reason why they have this issue and the women are more healthier and taking care of themselves, there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s their business they take.
We dont need more people in thisnworld. Hoping to have more childfree people in this
planet.
Well all of this gives me future hope!
can we talk about mens part in this too -many men not interested in fatherhood /marriage etc – generation of swipe
Ladies let’s be real. Economy, lack of fair opportunities, guys that aren’t responsible and the fear of being a single mother. The time and the tool it takes on your body. Society and predators, horrible postpartum care, horrible delivery care… I can keep going…
My girlfriend just turned 21and will give birth next month. We will probably have all our kids before she turns 30.
The “hormone” she’s talking about is testosterone. Testosterone lives in fat.
I was almost 41 years old when we had our daughter. We gradually worked up to having a single family home. I was 40 when we moved into our first single family home, we owned a condo and a townhouse before we could afford a single family home. We worked hard to get there and we paid off my then husband's student loan and his car payment early in our marriage. He rented but I had a condo and equity in it so we had a decent down payment for a better condo and my small car was paid for in cash. If you are both work get rid of all your debt then start saving for a home.
And to think…my parents were grandparents in their 40’s.
A very good subject to discuss
Just had mine 6 weeks ago naturally and first time trying after my friend's told me ah u will suffer to get pregnant at that age .will be 40 September 😊
What a nice conversation! Thanks for that. Love from Brazil. 🙂
Nah can’t be arsed with a nany state England isn’t a place to bring children up .
I didn’t give in to family pressure. I waited until the right person, place and time. That was 34 yrs for me. I am 35 now and will enjoy and care for this one until I am ready to have another one. No family pressure will make me have the second when I can handle just one and even if the second comes years later, after my PhD, even better
Because life without children is much better than it use to be. What do you expect
Im 32 un married want to marry and have kids but facing some problems in personal life this video really brings big smile on my face..lv from India
I'm 41 and heaving my 8th baby this autumn. Large family are frowned upon. Though my husband works incredibly hard we are often treated as second class citizens. Yes large families are noisy but so are people who like to party. 😅
It is ultimately a personal decision. Many pros and cons. As for the chance of being an orphan too soon, you never know. Unfortunately that happens very often also to young mothet and child.
Very interesting! I do have a question though, if there was a group study and it was seen that it was more about “freedom” then clearly nationalism which wouldn’t push someone to change their entire life but I can understand money being a deterrent. That’s mine atm. But what I want to know is about how you would change the narrative. I understand parenthood can be fulfilling and you could love it, but you do still lose freedom in some ways. Why is it somewhat frowned upon to be an older parent and not have kids young? I would want to know the governmental standing point other than their “incentives or productivity” because if it was that important, they would make it more ACCESSIBLE AND POSSIBLE for people who DO want to be parents.
We're not having babies because under capitalism, we are slaves. It's not even a "I don't want to bring a child into a messed-up world like this" type beat anymore. We literally do not have the time or energy working 40 hours a week for child rearing. I would love to have children, but doing so would be a horrific decision because I'm already barely clinging to lower middle class.
I used to joke that poverty was my birth control when I was twenty. Almost a decade later, and the joke is a lot less funny.
It’s not really finding a suitable partner!! It’s the freedom I have! I refuse to let my freedom go!
For me my mom had me at 25yrs old i had my first child at 23yrs and my second at 39yrs
I am 23 and pregnant with my second baby. In my personal life experience, people around me are not even considering a marriage and kids. It's dating for no reason until mid 20s hoping to be the small percentage that turn up to dates and find the one in a few months. My mum had a child at 45 and I don't want that at all. Praise be to the LORD that i was able to find my husband and be married at 18. I pray that all who are not thinking about thier future begin today in Jesus name. Amen
I'm 36 having my first baby and here in Usa they treated me as high risk 😂 geriatric pregnancy 😮
No offence meant, but I cant imagine being an new mother at my age,(in my 40s). I don't think I have the energy.I was lucky to have career/house/support etc at a younger age to have my kids in late 20s.
I know many women personally who had their menopause in early 40s. So I would suggest that people who are planning to have their kids in their 40s think of plan B also if they get menopause earlier.
I think part of being a parent is considering the child's future, not just our comfort level. Having a child when you're old doesn't consider that you're more likely to die when that child is still young…all your siblings, cousins, parents grandparent, will also be old, dead or on their way out. So you're leaving this child to be your nurse and likely watch every important person in their life leave them early in their life. You won't be able to help with the grandchildren in a meaningful way or at all if you're bloody dead. Yeah I know, I'm bitter and jealous and miserable blah blah. Or I'm honest and not a fan of selfishness. Whatever you land on. Said what I said.
Why are we acting like geriatric is a dirty word? And are we going to pretend that 'geriatric pregnancy' was just an arbitrary title just thrown out to piss women off? Good gravy y'all are DEMENTED with this need to be victims! Geesh!
Interesting
I am a middle aged African woman in Africa and one of my main reasons for not having children is environmentally oriented.
Really nice podcast – also super surprised to learn a woman's womb still capable of carrying a baby late on even after menopause,with donor eggs option.
I’ll be 60 this year w a 17 year old. I now have health issues and wish I would have giving birth to my daughter in my 20s and not my 40s… my som was born when I was 35. I think I provided a more mature approach to parenting but I fear I will miss out on so much because of my age. Blessings to older moms but 50 and above for a baby is crazy scary ❤…. Stay well and good luck!
Had my first at 27, second at 39, and my 3rd is due any day now at 42! All conceived naturally, all tended by homebirth midwives, all unmedicated births, all breastfeed for 2 years or more. (took me a while to find a suitable partner since living in a patriarchal society does not help). If the US actually CARED ABOUT WOMEN/birthing people and our children- we could move away from extractive capitalism, put a cap on housing inequity and deal with the insane cost of housing, tackle climate devastation, pass gun control laws, give us universal healthcare, paid leave, universal basic income, tax funded CHILDCARE (a concept proposed by bell hooks years ago) and make midwifery care more accessible, codify reproductive rights i.e. guarantee us safe and legal access to abortion. The US is a joke of a country with the rise of the conservative right and the our government's addiction to violence and bullying via the world's biggest polluter- the US military. The ongoing destruction of the environment at the hands of the US military does not inspired bringing children the world. Troubled times indeed.
A lot of daughters grew up in families where the father took no responsibility for raising them or they saw how their fathers exploited their mothers. This is why so many women are intent on securing their own income and agency before ever considering having children. They know the misery of being trapped in an abusive relationship because the mother couldn't safely walk away from a coercive man. And if they can't find a suitable partner later then many are comfortable with the idea of not having children at all. That's far better than the alternative, and while that remains the case, women will continue to have children later.
This comment section makes me smile. Im not alone after all. I will conceive my set of twins at the right time. Sending love and hugs to everyone.❤