Anguish of Older Mums ; One in Five Middle-Aged Women 'Shocked by an Unwanted Pregnancy'
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UNWANTED pregnancies have been experienced by almost a fifth of women in their mid-30s and 40s, a new report revealed yesterday.
The first ever major survey of Irish sexual health and relationships found a startling number of older women were not using contraception, even though they had no wish to become pregnant.See the full content of this document
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Anguish of Older Mums ; One in Five Middle-Aged Women 'Shocked by an Unwanted Pregnancy'
Many such women wrongly believed they were postmenopausal, or were worried that the Pill carried health risks.
Often such women had already raised a number of children to school age, and panicked when they found they were carrying another child.Others were attempting to go back to work after ra...See the full content of this document
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