My friend has an adult daughter, who is 36 and pregnant with her first child. I was chatting with this young mother-to-be and she tells me that the doctor labeled her happy event a "geriatric pregnancy". My reaction was "Whaaat!? Thirty-six is the new twenty-six!" Geriatric my ass. They are really out here making war on women's minds.
@ToolPackinMama anything over 35 has been called a geriatric pregnancy for decades. this isn't new.
i mean, still awful to say that. but not new.
@ToolPackinMama
Any woman over 35 is considered a geriatric pregnancy. Due to increased chromosomal abnormalities.
But there is a war on women.
@CinnamonGirlE @ToolPackinMama Sometimes they call it ‘Advanced Maternal Age.’
@CinnamonGirlE @ToolPackinMama
^^^Yes. This.
The war isn't calling us geriatric, which is just a medical term, the war is taking away birth control, choice, education, and freedom.
@CinnamonGirlE @ToolPackinMama
I remember a study, long time ago, linking older men fathering children with higher rates of schizophrenia. Mother's age didn't seem to be factor. Think was Swedish? study.
Anyhow led me down personal rabbit hole wondering if that's why things were slowly falling apart. Young women were encouraged to marry older established men for centuries.
My sister had her first pregnancy at 42. Second at 44.
@ToolPackinMama that isn't necessarily new. Medically, any woman having a child after 35 has a lot more risk and issues that have been proven. Instead of geriatric, they should have said 'advanced maternal age'.
@ToolPackinMama when my mom had my younger brother in 1960, she was 30. that was considered a geriatric pregnancy.
@ToolPackinMama I'm wondering, is her dr male or female?
@ToolPackinMama
Nah. They're just doctors. That's how they talk. 36 was always a "geriatric pregnancy". They're not *trying* to be rude.
Used to be women started having babies at 15, and didn't stop, so I'll take it.