40-year-old mother of 4-year-old child

Lonnie Hagstrom-Benner married at age 34 and became pregnant at age 36. "This was the only time in my life when I expressed a certain tendency," recalls a former employee of the publishing house, who gave birth to her first child at almost 37 years old.
In fact, Lonnie was a point on the curve, illustrating a new trend that threatens to continue into infinity; Curve giving birth in the middle of life. According to the National Center for Medical Statistics, the number of first births among women aged between 30 and 39 years over the past 15 years more than doubled. During the same period, the number of women older than 40 who had given birth for the first time increased by 50 percent. Ten years ago, the woman's biological clock began to ring uneasily when she was 30. Today, the first bell sounds somewhere in 35 years or even after forty.
As a result, so rose the bar, limiting the age of parturient women? One of the reasons is greater security. Prenatal studies have reduced the risk of birth of forty-year-old women with children with genetic abnormalities to the risk of 20-year-olds. There were new methods of treatment of infertility, which is more common in women after 35 years. New advances in medicine in the field of assisting a future mother who suffers from a chronic illness or in the case of severe pregnancy have allowed women to give birth to normal, healthy children. Relatively safe types of contraception and such popular personalities as Bette Midler and Glenn Clous, who became models for imitation, both for the first time gave birth after forty, also contributed to spreading the view "never too late." Now many women believe that they can postpone the birth of a child to a certain time without harm to themselves, which for many means until they get education, achieve success in professional work, consolidate their financial situation and find a suitable partner in life.
In fact, many women do not of their own will have late children. Late pregnancy can result from infertility, late marriage or secondary marriage.
"I did not seek to deliberately delay the birth of a child, Lonnie says. It so happened that I did not meet a life partner until I was 33 years old. Before that, I had a long relationship with men, but I did not marry. I did not want to get pregnant immediately during the honeymoon. Bruce and I wanted to live a little for ourselves, before we have children. Now, looking back, I think that it was time for me to give birth. I was not worried about my work, we were well-off, emotionally I was balanced, which I could not say about myself in 24 years. But I did not delay the time when the child appeared consciously. It's just that the circumstances developed. "