In "Fertility 'predicted by mother's age at menopause'", the Danish researcher found that fertility in women depend on their mother's menopause; in other words; they whose mothers have late menopause(after 55-year-old) will have more eggs than the other women whose mothers have early menopause(before 45-year-old). It is surprisingly that the high point of fertility is 15 to 31 years old.
Actually, I read this news last week. The first thing that attracted me is the peak of fertility age. I'm 26 year old and my birthday is the next month, December. So it mean that I have only 4 years in that of age. This news make me worry a bit. I think that now people has many responsibilities to fulfill their ambition like study in higher education - master degree, Ph.D., post-doc and so on. Then we spend most of life to do that with endeavor, so we will marry in late aged than the past. And definitely the age is influence the fertility and the chance to pregnant, but I don't think that it will be early like this. However, in the news, the author suggest that we don't have to worry about the fertility too much. because this study didn't focus on the associated between fewer eggs and the rate of pregnancy.
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| Should we pregnant in this age? Is she too old to be mom? |
Generally, the expert always say that if you try to have a baby since younger, the pregnancy rate will increase. How they defy the appropriate age to start? 15? 20? Or unexpected early pregnancy is OK, isn't it? I disagree to have a baby since younger age when you still rely on your parents. The ways that we marry when we are success in our career, maturity and ready to take care a baby and raise him/her is the better way to our society. Hopefully, the new technology will help the couples to have a baby, no matter what they aged.
I wonder about the fertility of men, " What is the peak of fertility age of men?" " Are they influence by heredity like women?" And one day the scientist will answer those questions.
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| Or you want to be like this, the pregnant man? |
Fertility 'predicted by mother's age at menopause'(2012, November 7). BBC News Health. Retrieved November 14, 2012. from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20217735
This topic is very interesting, as I hope to have my own children someday. However, I have no plan to get pregnant in the near future because I am still single and I plan to study master degree next year. Anyway, your information really surprise me that the high point of fertility is between 15 and 31 years old. Oh!!! I have very few years left. Similar to me, most of my friends are still single because we pay most of our attention on work. I agree with you that we want to get married after we have succeeded in our career. We have neglected the appropriate time of our body to have a baby. I may have to warn them.
ReplyDeleteMo, thank you so much for your useful information.
^^ I hope it make you decide to marry whenever.
DeleteMy being attracted point is not about pregnancy,but menopause. My age is near that boundary, also I heard terrible warning from others. They say it is more severe than puberty. If your mom in menopause, you'd better don't touch her. Her feelings or moods are not usual. They are more sensitive and easy to be hurt. The pregnancy would be a choice for your life, but the menopause is not a choice if you are a female.
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree with you that menopause is the stage which you can't deny. But I think that you should prepare for that without stress. It's just one moment that you can pass it. Don't be stress about menopause so much. If you take care yours in good health, it will be fine.^^
DeleteMo, I want to know more. When women have menopause, what do they feel? Then what should men do? Or what shouldn’t men do?
ReplyDeleteActually, I don't know it exactly. I think that you should be neat and should not make her loose temper by your manner and words. lol hope you pass it fine.
DeleteIt's absolutely appealing topic for female students. I also agree with Katie. I also like to prepare someting for it . I have read some sentences once, it is girls become women ,later women return to the first stage enen if not exactly same as before.
ReplyDeleteI watched a mixed situation of your worries on one TV
series Grace Anotomy. The single obstarician in the drama is told the fact that only few eggs are left. In addition to she has no chance to pregnancy..
it's a USA's drama-Grey's anatomy, isn't it? I'm not sure about the fact in the series. But I think that she hurt from her life and want to have a baby to relieve her lonely. Actually, I like that series too.
DeleteBut I think the peak time of fertility is not important. Including me there are many women to delivery babies in healty since older than the peak time. Don't worry too much.
ReplyDeleteI don't worry fertility age, maybe a bit. lol
DeleteThanks for your kindness.
Comforting for older first time mothers (not true for older mothers generally) is that there is a strong correlation between a child doing well in school and the fact that "the child's mother was thirty or older at the time of her first child's birth" (Levitt & Dubner, 2006). Societies that force teenage girls to have unwanted babies are deliberately creating poorly performing students, crime and other social problems, and that sounds a bit insane to me, as well as being seriously immoral.
ReplyDeleteAnd as Steven Levitt shows by analysing the data from a massive study of children and families in the Chicago school district, it also helps children if the parents are highly educated (get that Ph.D.) and have many books in the home, although it doesn't matter whether the parents actually read to the child or not. Having books on shelves correlates strongly with children doing well at school; parents reading to children does not. It's also good for your children to be of high socio-economic status, but the family being together or broken doesn't matter much for the child's school performance.
The interesting thing, as Levitt points out in his essay, is why these correlations, and non-correlations, should be the way they are.
References
Levitt, S.D., & Dubner, S.J. (2006). What Makes a Perfect Parent? In,Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, pp. 147 - 176. London: Penguin Books.
I agree that teenager girl who force to have unwanted kid is cause of many problem both mother and her child.
DeleteAmazingly, Levitt say that the more books at home children have, the more performance at school they get. My father who really love to read many genre of books never read book to me before I slept when I was young. But he encouraged me by giving me a kid literature with beautiful picture and gradually increase the text in books. And it increase my ability to read. I read a news paper, cartoon books and kid novel instead of watching TV. Thanks for my dad who make me love to read a books, so I have less problem to read many textbooks when I was Vet student. lol
After long and hard infertility treatment, one of my friends became mother of twin girls at the age of 40. With help of her parents and a housekeeper, she raises them. It must be hard work for her, but she is very happy and satisfied. Moreover, she looks younger than her real age! According to her, she get information from much younger mothers about fashion, hairstyle, music or dramas and such experiences make her mind stimulated and fresh.
ReplyDeleteAlthough late child-bearing can have some risks, it is not always bad, isn't it?
I've really enjoyed reading the discussion on Mo's post. It reminded of my own family, especially my mum, who gave birth to eight (yes, 8) children starting with me when she was already 30. I think she's amazing, and still going strong in her eighties. After I was about 8 or so, I was expected to help with my younger brothers and sisters, and I agree that it could be a real pain at times - younger brothers and sisters sometimes do the dumbest things. My youngest brother once put his finger under a sledge hammer that I was playing with, and I got into trouble for crushing his finger! The blood did spurt out most impressively when the hammer came down - I don't think I'll ever forget that childhood memory, and the scolding from mum and dad probably helped to make it permanent.
ReplyDeleteMy youngest sister is 16 years younger than me. She was born when my mother was 46, without any problems, although after the previous seven of us, mum was well practised. And that sister now has a family with four grand-children for mum to fuss over, along with a husband of dubious value. I wish they would move in and live with mum, who I'm sure would be much happier with all the hassle of four young kids in the house than she is living alone, even if she complained about them all the time. It's not as though rooms were a problem. When she designed the house, mum planned on twelve people living there without being cramped, and now it's only herself and a couple of our family dogs. The dogs are very spoilt.
My grandmother have 10 children since she was 18-year-old. The last daughter, she gave birth when she was around 40 years old. And my aunt, the last daughter is healthy.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, my teacher had a first child when she was 40 year-old and had underlying disease- diabetic during pregnant. But lucky, she and her son were safe.
It's quite different from the past; that is, our family is smaller than the past. And mothers have a baby since she was young and gradually delivery the other kids. So her body is adapt to that. When you have a first child when you are older with your physiology and hormone changing; you will decrease the rate of pregnant. Thanks for good modern medical technology.
P.S. Chieko, I don't think having a baby when you are older is bad. I think it's good because you already set everything for them and surely ready to be good mom. ^^