Is 35 or 40 too old to have kids?

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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    GreenTeaDisease wrote:
    usually yes you have to pay for health care (insurance or out of pocket), but there are many nuances. I think for any pregnant woman there is adequate care provided for by some means. Plenty of low income women who may not have insurance receive prenatal care.

    in scotland all maternity care, both pre and post natal, is free
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • pj10alive42
    pj10alive42 Posts: 381
    Hawkshore wrote:
    :confused: I didn't think so....but maybe I’ am because I have no fuckin clue where your comment is coming from? :p

    She was asking me why I thought I was retarded...

    I guess it's because cate told me I am.
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  • pineapplesandwaves
    pineapplesandwaves Posts: 584
    tish wrote:
    I mean, I just figure it's game over at 35 unless you can afford really good health care. That number is like doomsday.
    The odds of having a baby with genetic/chromosomal defects increases the older the mother is. 35+ plus becomes the at-risk age for these defects. For instance, the odds of having Down syndrome [approximately]:

    - 1 in a 1200 at age 20
    - 1 in 700 at 30
    - 1 in 300 at 35
    - 1 in 100 at 40
    - 1 in 30 at 45

    Also, the older you are, the more likely there are to be problems during the pregnancy, including a higher risk of miscarriage and stillbirth, and the higher the likelihood of requiring a c-section.
    No time to be void or save up on life. You got to spend it all.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    GreenTeaDisease wrote:
    the truth is it's not really "free" anywhere. under any system trade offs are made. in canada for example people often have to wait for extensive periods to receive "free" care and often people such as the elderly are made to wait longer or are denied in favor of someone else.


    its free here.. i.e. a 17 year old girl ho has never worked will get the same cara nd attention a s a 31 year old solicitor..

    its 'free' in as much as its paid for by our taxes.. but its genius lies in the fact that its not exclusive to just those whocan afford it... the US has an unbelievably high death toll due to people who simply couldnt afford care.. meanwhile your govt has spent 60 trillion dollars on a war no-one gives a fuck about.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    pj10alive42 wrote:
    Damn cate, you are ruthless...I like that.

    -Chuck


    you're just fortunate enough to have caught me in a 'happy' mood i guess. :D
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Seriously, if you can get pregnant and sustain a pregnancy and have the will and desire to do so then go for it I say, and I don't care if you're 50 or 15.
    NOPE!!!

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  • pj10alive42
    pj10alive42 Posts: 381
    catefrances wrote:
    you're just fortunate enough to have caught me in a 'happy' mood i guess. :D

    I feel so lucky

    ;)
    I'm trying to drink away the part of the day I cannot sleep away...
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    pj10alive42 wrote:
    She was asking me why I thought I was retarded...

    I guess it's because cate told me I am.


    oh yeah... i am the font of all knowledge. :rolleyes: :D
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  • pj10alive42
    pj10alive42 Posts: 381
    catefrances wrote:
    oh yeah... i am the font of all knowledge. :rolleyes: :D

    Whaaaat?

    Do those rolling eyes suggest that you're not...damn cate...and to think, I had big plans for us.
    I'm trying to drink away the part of the day I cannot sleep away...
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    pj10alive42 wrote:
    I feel so lucky

    ;)

    i dont believe in luck.
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  • pj10alive42
    pj10alive42 Posts: 381
    catefrances wrote:
    i dont believe in luck.

    You best start fool.
    I'm trying to drink away the part of the day I cannot sleep away...
  • _Crazy_Mary_
    _Crazy_Mary_ Posts: 1,299
    I think 35 is fine, but 40 is pushing it.

    My parents were 37 & 41 when I was born and they were always so old!
    I really screwed that up. I really Schruted it.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    pj10alive42 wrote:
    Whaaaat?

    Do those rolling eyes suggest that you're not...damn cate...and to think, I had big plans for us.


    http://www.stalker.com
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    pj10alive42 wrote:
    You best start fool.


    cause and effect. everything has a reason for being or happening, there is no happenstance.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    pj10alive42 wrote:
    Whaaaat?

    Do those rolling eyes suggest that you're not...damn cate...and to think, I had big plans for us.

    not at all. just so long as you continue thinking i am, we should be just fine. :D
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  • pj10alive42
    pj10alive42 Posts: 381
    dunkman wrote:
    http://www.stalker.com

    Yo Dunk, that site is bogus...I thought you were really trying to help a brutha. Damn.
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  • pj10alive42
    pj10alive42 Posts: 381
    catefrances wrote:
    cause and effect. everything has a reason for being or happening, there is no happenstance.

    Oh cate....please let me make you into an atheist.
    I'm trying to drink away the part of the day I cannot sleep away...
  • pj10alive42
    pj10alive42 Posts: 381
    catefrances wrote:
    not at all. just so long as you continue thinking i am, we should be just fine. :D

    Thinking you're what?

    :dreamsbig:

    :D
    I'm trying to drink away the part of the day I cannot sleep away...
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    pj10alive42 wrote:
    Oh cate....please let me make you into an atheist.

    you could try i guess.. but you'd be too late. ive been an atheist since 1977.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    pj10alive42 wrote:
    Thinking you're what?

    :dreamsbig:

    :D

    that i'm the font of all knowledge.
    hear my name
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