by Peg O’Neill
“I hate to remind you of this, but you do fall into the category of Advanced Maternal Age…” said my obstetrician at one of my early prenatal visits, the one when you’re supposed to discuss options for prenatal testing. Unwisely, my husband started chuckling, but shut up immediately when I glared at him with one of those hormonally-charged looks of scorn that only pregnant and peri-menopausal women can muster. […]
by Rashidah Shakir-Blackshere
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” Through the voice of Hamlet, William Shakespeare teaches us that life, with its inevitable joys and sorrows, functions only according to how we imagine it. Call me weird, but it is Hamlet who is helping me sift through the perplexing array of emotions that accompany motherhood after 40. […]
by Julie Donner Andersen
Spring has sprung.* It’s not so much the warmer temperatures or the tulips fighting to push through the soil that clue me in. It’s the sudden appearance of Spandex trotting down my street in the form of lithe, housebound new mothers pushing those newfangled three-wheeled jogging strollers for some fresh air and exercise. […]
by Nancy Alspaugh-Jackson
PLENTY OF TIME… I always said, plenty of time to have children one day. That was my mantra from my late teens to late thirties, from single girl to married woman, divorced woman back to single again. When I actually met and married a man who wanted to start a family at the same time I did, “Plenty of time” turned into “Right now!” […]
by Elizabeth Gregory
We tend to think of later motherhood in personal terms – often focusing on the story of each woman’s journey to having kids at what is still sometimes considered an advanced age. But when all these personal choices are added together, they have enormous ripple effects, unraveling the old social fabric and moving us all toward a very different tomorrow. […]
by Cyma Shapiro
Aaaaahhhhh. Here I am again. Blogging on my own website……………..
Welcome to my new blog. For those of you already following me on
www.Motherhood LaterThanSooner.com, I’m now here, as well. I thought it fitting to address head-on a topic near and dear to many midlife mothers: menopause. I look forward to writing for and meeting up with you………………. […]