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Not unusual to have moms in their late 40's & early 50's

Catherine McDiarmid-Watt | Thursday, January 18, 2007 | 0 comments

I also have a friend who worked with Native Americans delivering their babies, and she said that it was not at all unusual to have labouring mothers in their late 40's and early 50's.

Obviously there were sometimes health issues like gestational diabetes or hypertension, but none of the medical staff even raised an eyebrow at the ages of the mothers -- it just wasn't considered unusual at all. No one talked about what a "miracle" it was because it was commonplace!

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