Surprise Pregnancies In Women and Couples Over 40 Surprisingly Common
Unintended pregnancies in women over 40 is quite high...people just think their infertile over the age of 40 and they're not. As a matter of fact, surprise pregnancies in women over 40 is second only to teenagers!See also: www.getpregnantover40.com for many more articles on women getting pregnant naturally over 40 and after failed fertility treatments
The couple mentioned below (man 56, woman 44) get pregnant "out of nowhere". Just another example of an older couple who beat the odds. Read more:
Man, aged 56 and diagnosed as infertile, meets woman, 44. Birth control isn't part of their whirlwind romance – and they get pregnant before you can say “oopsy baby.” Inconceivable, right?
Well, not quite. That's how a baby girl was born to Laura Arpiainen, a Vancouver architect, now 46, and her partner, an interior designer. Their 14-month-old daughter was a “gift out of nowhere,” Ms. Arpiainen says...
...The truth is, almost 40 per cent of pregnancies in women over 40 are unintended, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a New York-based non-profit research centre that tracks reproductive trends.
See also: 49 and pregnant (getpregnantover40.com)
Despite their years of experience with the birds and the bees, women at this stage of life may play Russian roulette with birth control, doctors say.
“Some women over 40 can get sort of sloppy [with contraception] because they don't think they can get pregnant,” says Wendy Wolfman, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Mount Sinai Hospital and an associate professor at the University of Toronto.
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