Too late to give birth - it is fashionable

Pozdnorodyaschie mother - the main trend of the past decades, as experts believe. Already in America, more children born from mothers older than 35 years than from teenage girls.

This feature can be explained by the development of medical technology, and late marriage, and career ambitions of women and to change attitudes towards motherhood. Today, women prefer to spend their youth (18 to 35) on the establishment of a career, and only then deal with the family and the birth of children. Moreover, that their services multiple family planning clinics with the most advanced technologies.

Experts have repeatedly noted that the chances of a woman to give birth for the first time after 30 years significantly reduced, and then fall with each successive year. However, Statistics Research Center Pew Research Center, during the period from 1990 to 2008, the number pozdnorodyaschih women (over 35) has increased from 368 thousand to 603 thousand. In 2008, they accounted for 14% of all newborns, or 4 million babies. The vast majority of women (over 71%) for the first time gave birth after education - even college graduation (after 21 years).

Meanwhile, the number of women who gave birth to 20 years old, fell from 533 million in 1990 to 441 thousand in 2008. Today, they give birth to only one in ten American children. Although the very nature makes most women ready to give birth during this period, the weaker sex prefers to wait.

A UK government in general are going to abolish the upper limit for persons wishing to undergo IVF. Some clinics are trying to get pregnant ladies who are over 50. While they are often selected for this purpose in Russia, where there is no such prohibition, and the prices for treatments are inferior to the British.

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