SO DOES AGE MAKE YOU A BETTER MUM? ; Youthful zip or the wisdom of maturity - which is more important for a mother? LOUISE CHUNN, who gave birth in her 20s, 30s and 40s, reveals all...
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MY MOTHER first gave birth at 22 and considered her fifth child, born when she was 36, an 'autumn leaf'. When I hadn't produced a single baby by my late 20s my mother told a school friend of mine I probably wouldn't have children as I was such a 'career girl'.
I had been married for four years after all.See the full content of this document
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SO DOES AGE MAKE YOU A BETTER MUM? ; Youthful zip or the wisdom of maturity - which is more important for a mother? LOUISE CHUNN, who gave birth in her 20s, 30s and 40s, reveals all...
But by the standards of today I wasn't even biding my time. The average age for a first birth in the UK is now 27. And I was only two years older, and still in my 20s, when I duly brought forth my son Charlie, now 23. By Mum's post-war example I was slacking -- but most of my friends were well into their 30s before they even started trying to conceive.
Two years and three months after my first baby -- and by now in my early 30s -- I gave birth to Alic...See the full content of this document
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