Fertility

[dancerjodi]

Lots of thoughtful stuff here http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/110861/how-older-parenthood-will-upend-american-society# . 

Comments

[goat.livejournal.com]

Eek, as an older mom who wants another I couldn't get through that. I really wish I had started earlier, but I didn't even know how much I'd love being a mother, and actually had some pretty negative views about it for a long time. Add that to being pretty messed up through my 20s, not even meeting hubs until I was 27, and a miscarriage, how could I have even started much earlier?

[dancer.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. I'm older than you, so I fall into that 'waited too long, not having any more and that's less than I planned on' camp that they mention. I just don't want to be "old" and chasing around a young child. IMO, not fair to the child.

I'm hoping to be healthy and around for a long time. I've enjoyed having parents who are (relatively) young, but seeing my friends deal with their parent's health issues, is a bit of a picture of what Mina may need to deal with, with Brian and I.

Brian and I could surely have tried earlier, but we didn't think we wanted to back then. Then, it took time for he and I to catch up with each other. By the time we started trying, it took us 2 years (1 with serious medical intervention). Thankfully, so far, all looks good with that though.