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TBF

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3. It can but honestly I think a lot of that is just
Fri Jun 22, 2012, 06:29 PM
Jun 2012

based on years of folks having babies in their teens & twenties. Individual women in their 30s and even early 40s do just fine. I was in excellent physical shape after years of running (including marathons) when I was in my mid 30s and got pregnant for the first time. My OB stated that he had folks in their 20s with bad habits and were much worse risks. So, I had the first baby at 36 and then got pregnant again at 39. I went through all the testing for a second time and came through with flying colors - and another perfectly healthy baby. I was 40 at the time of that birth, and that OB's oldest patient at that time was a woman of 44 who got pregnant just like I did - with no help from any artificial anything. Frankly I think there is a lot of literature out there meant to persuade women to do things that they may not want to do (and that includes reproducing at all).

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