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Dear Sharon I can empathise fully, naturally I have never been pregnant over 40 (or at any age ;-) ) However my girlfriend and I found ourselves pregnant, (oops) She was over 40 and I am 5 years older than she. She has 3 other children who at the time were 13,16 and 18 and I had one who was 8. My GF and I had the same concerns which I suspect you have. However we need not have worried, she carried full term and had a effortless pregnantcy (umm easy for me to say, as I was not the pregnant one ;-) ) My GF did state she felt a bit more tired than she had been with the other 3 (uderstandable plus she kept working as teacher for almost until our son was born!!).Apart from this she had no problems The birth was an easy one ( my GF agrees )
And we have a beautiful son (now 6 years old) There is only one minor concern I have is that maybe(just maby) because I am not a 'young' dad he might be able to out run me sooner rather than later. When I pick him up from school or take him to, say one of his friends' b/day party I am very aware that all the other dads and the mums are soooo young, I know this as not gone unnoticed by the GF. If we had a chance to do that part ofn our life again where we fell pregnant by accident NETHER OF US WOULD CHANGE A THING!! Consider this although there is a SLIGHT increast risk for older mums-to-be, the odds of giving birth to woulderfull health baby are very much in favor.
Warm regards Keith (Adelaide, South Australia)

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