Mothers Over 40 in Record Baby Boom: Number of Women Who Give Birth in Their Fifth Decade or Later Trebles
This article is from 2010. I could have sworn I already did a blog post on this, but I looked around my blog a little bit and don’t see it.
- By Steve Doughty for the Daily Mail
- A baby boom among older women has trebled the number giving birth after their 40th birthday.
- Almost 27,000 babies were born to mothers over 40 last year, figures revealed yesterday.
- The unprecedented level is nearly three times the total of 20 years ago and up by 50 per cent over the past decade.
- Even during the post-war childbirth peak in the Sixties there were fewer children born to women in their fifth decade and beyond.
- Britain now has one of the highest birth rates for older women in the world, with 3.8 per cent of all babies born to mothers over 40. Only Italy has a higher level in Europe.