Potential risks trying to get pregnant and give birth to 40 years.
After many years of struggle with recurrent miscarriage and infertility treatment, including in vitro fertilization (IVF), Joanna Brody was thrilled when she finally thought of himself, at the age of 43 years, even with the increased risk of health problems, pregnancy after 40 years together. Nevertheless, the former marathon runner was in good health and will be during her pregnancy, who performed without complications.
But two days after returning from the hospital after giving birth to her daughter (she was also 6-month-old adopted son), she woke up feeling as if she could not breathe. "I thought I had to worry about having a panic attack due to the stress of taking two babies for a new home," Brody now 45, remembers.
The next day when she could not catch her breath walking up the stairs, she was admitted to the emergency room. There, the doctors discovered that her lungs filled with fluid, a sign of peripartum cardiomyopathy, a potentially fatal disease that occurs when heart damage Teresa, causing a weakening of the heart muscle can not pump blood efficiently. While this in every 1,300 deliveries occur in only about 1, it is more common in older women, including ,, Brody who at the age of 40 years.
The number of women giving birth in their 40s and 50s and beyond is at record levels, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2007 105.071 aged 40-44 women gave birth, its highest level since 1968; The birth rate of women aged 45 to 54 was 7349, an increase of 5% in just one year.
"The numbers really took off in the last two decades, research has shown that older women can safely carry the pregnancy and birth," said Mark Sauer, MD, chief of reproductive endocrinology at Columbia University Medical Center and one of the leading researchers in this field.
But two days after returning from the hospital after giving birth to her daughter (she was also 6-month-old adopted son), she woke up feeling as if she could not breathe. "I thought I had to worry about having a panic attack due to the stress of taking two babies for a new home," Brody now 45, remembers.
The next day when she could not catch her breath walking up the stairs, she was admitted to the emergency room. There, the doctors discovered that her lungs filled with fluid, a sign of peripartum cardiomyopathy, a potentially fatal disease that occurs when heart damage Teresa, causing a weakening of the heart muscle can not pump blood efficiently. While this in every 1,300 deliveries occur in only about 1, it is more common in older women, including ,, Brody who at the age of 40 years.
The number of women giving birth in their 40s and 50s and beyond is at record levels, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2007 105.071 aged 40-44 women gave birth, its highest level since 1968; The birth rate of women aged 45 to 54 was 7349, an increase of 5% in just one year.
"The numbers really took off in the last two decades, research has shown that older women can safely carry the pregnancy and birth," said Mark Sauer, MD, chief of reproductive endocrinology at Columbia University Medical Center and one of the leading researchers in this field.
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