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Are there more older mothers?
Catherine McDiarmid-Watt |
Monday, June 11, 2007 |
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Birth statistics over the past twenty years show a huge swing in favour of delaying parenthood till our thirties and beyond.
In 1998, the last year for which figures are available, 44% of births were to women over 30. The number of births to women between 40 and 44 has also increased by 50% over the decade.
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Hi
Can you link to the statistics you find ? Or scan them ?
Would be appreciated, if poss.
Thank you
:)
This quote came from http://www.babycentre.co.uk/pregnancy/antenatalhealth/ageandpregnancy/
Most quotes can be found by copying part of the quote into Google, placing quotation marks around the words and doing a search.
Sometimes I correct spelling etc, in a quote, so if you can't find it with one set of words, try some others i nthe quote.
"Most quotes can be found by copying part of the quote into Google"
True (duh!!)
Thank You
xxxx