Older mothers are born healthy children

Women have a chance of having a healthy baby, even after forty years. So say Israeli doctors from Tel Aviv University.

Many modern women are starorodyaschaya , Postponing childbearing   to achieve career or other purposes. It is fraught with serious consequences: because with age the ability to conceive and nurturing begins to decline. But Israeli doctors have encouraged business women. These ladies may still have a chance to have a baby after 40 or even 45 years. Moreover, child will be healthy .

Postponement procreation   usually associated with the risk for physical and mental health of the child. Experts have studied how likely such risks. The study involved one hundred seventy seven " starorodyaschaya "Mothers over the age of 45 years and 20 - over 50 years of age. A careful analysis of their health and the health of infants showed that the vast majority of" older "mothers give birth usually healthy child .

Complications of this, of course, exist. But most of them are associated with the development of gestational diabetes   or pre-eclampsia. Most often, these risks do not affect infants.

Thus, the results show that the mother healthy child   can be after 50 years. But in this case the risk of gestational diabetes   and high blood pressure during pregnancy will be nearly three hundred percent. Pregnancy can also be complicated by placenta previa and other violations. So that childbearing it is not necessary to postpone.

Pregnancy and Gynecology

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