![]() ![]() Carroll stresses that, even though there are greater risks of complications in people who are pregnant at a later age, older pregnant patients and their babies still typically do well. Carroll says.Įvery ob/gyn practice is different, but some may have “extra precautions” in place for women in their late 40s who are pregnant, including more monitoring and more frequent appointments, Dr. “Multiple gestations carries its own increased risk for any pregnancy and these risks compound with increasing maternal age,” Dr. high blood pressure in pregnancy), and low birth weight in infants. Carroll says, including miscarriage, pre-term delivery, preeclampsia (i.e. There are increased risks with having a pregnancy at an older age, Dr. “This does not mean it is necessarily easy, as fertility can decrease significantly after age 40 and spontaneous pregnancy is very rare after 45.” (Spontaneous pregnancy, in case you're not familiar with the term, is getting pregnant without reproductive assistance.) “Both average age of people pregnant for the first time and the birth rate in people 35 and older have increased, while other demographics have seen birth rates decrease, so it is increasingly common,” he says. Matthew Carroll, M.D., assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine, agrees, but says doctors are seeing later pregnancies more often. “But it’s not common for people in their late 40s.” “We see pregnant patients in their early 40s more frequently than we did years ago, simply because of assisted reproductive technology,” she says. It’s “pretty rare” to see pregnancies in your late 40s, according to Christine Greves, M.D., an ob/gyn at the Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies. “My grandmother was a twin, my husband's grandmother was a twin, so we have twins in our lineage.” Swank said that twins run in both her family and her husband’s family. I’m going to make it work.’ She's like, ‘You’re an executive producer, you can do it, but this is weird.’” “And came and said, ‘You know that’s not in continuity.‘ And I said, ‘Oh, I think it works.’ And she’s like, ‘It doesn’t.’ I’m like, ‘No, it does. And then I put a jacket on that wasn’t in continuity,” she said. “My clothes started not to fit so I had to, the other day. Swank later went on Live with Kelly and Ryanand said that she’s “feeling great right now.” She also added that “it’s so fun to actually finally be able to say it, you know, to get past the 12 weeks and be able to say, ‘I’m pregnant!’”Īccording to Swank, the cast and crew of Alaska Daily just learned the news, too, and she had trouble hiding her news before her announcement. ![]()
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