So Cheryl Cole 39 said she's too old to have another biological baby

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Cheryl Cole just said at 39 she's too old to have another biological baby. What's your thoughts?
I'm genuinely curious as someone who's nearly 38 I'm still trying for my first baby.
Can a healthy pregnancy be possible?
At 39 apparently half your eggs would be deemed chromosomally abnormal.
What's your experience on getting pregnant at this age?

My periods just stopped one day. I was 37 and that was that. Perhaps Cheryl is the same.
I know the average age for menopause is higher but average age means there will always be people younger (and older)

People are allowed to have preferences about their own lives and bodies. I don't get the point of making things like this all about you.

Each woman is different. Im currently 6 months pregnant with my first at 34.

I spoke to my doctor beforehand and her advice was, come off birth control and see what happens. Don't lose heart, it will take some time.

3 weeks dear reader, it took me 3 weeks. I didn't even miss the period and I was trying not to throw up my cornflakes.

My friend had her second set of twins at 47. Her first set were 17!

I would say 39 would be too old for me to have another biological child too. I don't think id function well at that age.

She's not saying she's too old to conceive but there's a lot more to having a baby than that.

She has one child perhaps she doesn't feel she could go though another prganancy, perhaps she physically can't, perhaps she just doesn't want to.

I had a baby at 38 and 39 and then another one at 41. The problem in my opinion is that I feel too old and tired. Im now closer to 60 than 50 an am still doing the school run. I couldn’t have imagined how peri menopause would change my life when I was in my thirties.

I had one at 22 with a chromosomal abnormality after 6 miscarriages. I’m almost 40 and as much as I want another one having a child with a disability has already been a very real and hard thing to do in my youth. I’d be mad to do it again.

She didn't say she was
If she feels too old at 39 that is totally her choice.

Exactly
This is what you call reading things out of context.

everyone is different. Personally 34 was my cut off but luckily I was all done before that.

She feels that 39 is too old for herself. A perfectly valid reason, for herself. She is not talking for other women.

It's fair enough. Plenty of women only have one child. Her child is now 5 or 6 so is at school. I couldn't imagine having a newborn and having to do the school run.

I had my three dcs before the age of 34.
Ideally I wouldn’t want to have children in my late thirties/ early forties because I know that I would have found it difficult.
My dsis had her last child at 43 and she has been fine with it . Different strokes.,,

Personally, for me, yes I'm too old for another and she's same age as me. I've had two and defo couldn't be bothered at this age. Had so much more energy etc back then. I'm defo not past it (and I do it for a job too) but it's not for me!! I can understand her thoughts

I had DS2 at 40. My mam had me when she was well into her 40s.

There are many reasons, physical, emotional, biological, that 39 is too old for them, none of which are anyone else’s business. 39 would be too old for me because my mum had me at 43 and was constantly very upset by people thunking I was her grandaughter and I spent my childhood wishing I had much younger parents. (My dad was 45). They were both dead before I started uni at 21.

Also don’t celebrities regularly knock a good few years off their age as well? Maybe she’s not even chronologically 39, not that it matters.

Lots of folk having kids later and later, that is also their choice. I had one at 40 and did contemplate another at 42. I had a career I wanted so left it late but met plenty of older mum’s. In fact the woman in my breastfeeding group had her first at 45 and wanted another. Each to their own own.

She’s talking out of her orifice.
My dd had hers at 38,39, and nearly 43. All fine.
Two and three weren’t even ‘tried for’.

I do know she was probably very lucky, though.

…And nobody has once thought I was my child’s grandmother!

At 38 I had my second and it certainly felt much more difficult. I wouldn't try at 39 personally.

I haven't seen her comments in full but presumably she said she is too old (a person with her own medical history and feelings and history), rather than that every woman alive is too old?

This.

I felt too old to have more at that age. But I had my second (last as it turned out) at 29. Had I not had any yet I’m sure I would have been happy to try. It’s personal choice not a criticism.

Here's my anecdata: my mum had me at 41, my aunt had my cousin at 42 and my friend had a baby (her first one) at 43! All babies were healthy/no issues. I fell pregnant at 39, it didn't work out but the issue wasn't related to my age.

I'm 37 (38 this year) and I feel too past it to have another one, but it's more to do with the fact that I'm just not maternal enough for it.