The pros and cons of waiting to have a baby
Whether to pursue a career or to postpone marriage, some women are delaying pregnancy for a variety of reasons. As technology allows for women to enter motherhood at later stages, society has adjusted.
In fact, the March of Dimes reported that most recent statistics show one in five women in the U.S. has her first child after age 35.
Every pregnancy is different, but age can have a tremendous impact on the ease of pregnancy and delivery, according to health professionals.
Edward Holt, D.O. at Hendrick Medical Center, said a variety of things, from physical limitations to mental preparedness, influence the labor and delivery process, but the physical aspects are often most limiting.
"As you age, you are more likely to develop chronic disease," he said. "The 20s are probably the healthiest decade to conceive."
The chances of having a child with chromosomal abnormalities increases with age, Holt said. At age 25, a pregnant woman would have one chance in 1,500 of having an infant with chromosomal abnormality. At age 34, the chances are one in 172 and pregnant women at age 40 have a one in 40 chance.
Miscarriage is another pregnancy hurdle that can plague women who wait until later in life to bear children.
According to the March of Dimes, the miscarriage rate increases with age. Beginning with a rate of 10 percent of pregnancies for women in their 20s ending in miscarriage, the March of Dimes reports miscarriage rates increase with age. The rate for women between the ages of 35 and 39 is about 20 percent. The rate increases to 35 percent for women ages 40 to 44.
Although fertility decreases and the chance for complications increases with age, Holt said the likelihood of aging women having healthy pregnancies and deliveries is good, which is probably why studies show the trend nationwide is to wait until later in life to enter motherhood. However, Holt said the bulk of his work is still generally geared toward mothers in their mid-20s.
"In my practice, it's still overwhelmingly a younger population getting pregnant, having children," he said. "But the full range of ages are certainly covered in my practice."
Physical changes brought on by age aren't the only thing that impact pregnancy. Linda Kemp delivered about 200 babies in her 16 years as a midwife. She's delivered babies to mothers within a broad age range, she said, her youngest mother being 18 and the oldest one in her mid-40s.
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Edward Holt, DO at Hendrick Medical Center, said a variety of things, from physical limitations to mental preparedness, influence the labor and delivery process, but the physical aspects are often most limiting. "As you age, you are more likely to
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Speakers 'one' with unions at UMaine rally – The Maine Campus
Approximately 60 people, both speakers and spectators, gathered in the University of Maine’s Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza on Monday to show support for union workers.
The rally was one in a nationwide trend of assemblies coinciding with the anniversary of King’s assassination 43 years ago in Memphis, designed to bring attention to what is perceived as government opposition to organized labor.
Students and professors mingled with unionized workers to hear speeches at the “We Are One Rally for Human Dignity,” coordinated by the Eastern Maine Labor Council and Food AND Medicine.
The labor council is a collective group representing 36 unions and approximately 6,000 workers. Food AND Medicine, based in Brewer, strives to ensure “economic and social justice,” according to its mission statement.
Demonstrators denounced bills in the state legislature sponsored by Rep. David Burns, R-Whiting, and Sen. Debra Plowman, R-Hampden.
Burns’ bill, LD 1346, suggests the implementation of a “training wage” of $5.25 an hour for 180 days for workers under the age of 20. Maine state minimum wage is $7.50 an hour, 25 cents more than federal minimum wage.
Under Burns’ bill, young Mainers would be earning $2.25 less an hour than state minimum wage.
Plowman’s bill, LD 516, would increase the number of hours 16- and 17-year-olds could work weekly from 20 to 24 and would allow them to work until 11 p.m. Originally, the bill would have allowed them to work 32 hours a week.
“King talked about how we are all interrelated. What unifies us is more fundamental than what divides us,” said Doug Allen, professor of philosophy at UMaine . “Divided, we feel overwhelmed. We feel we have no power and we feel demoralized. When we come together in solidarity as we are in this rally then, in fact, we have a strong voice. It is said throughout the world that people united, in fact, can never be defeated.”
Emery Deabay, a member of the United Steelworkers union and an employee at the Verso Paper Bucksport Mill, attended the rally, signs in hand proclaiming a need to “Protect workers’ rights.”
“Like the signs say,” he said, motioning toward a cluster of signs with a common theme, “we need to stand as one in solidarity against greed and corruption to make sure [workers] are protected.”
Deabay has attended rallies in Augusta and Portland in the past to spread the same message. Peering through the crowd, he pointed out friends who had come from as far as Skowhegan and Baileyville. Deabay came to the Orono demonstration, he said, in order to honor King.
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