Decius wrote:

janelane wrote:

Publicists for the 44-year-old redhead told the magazine that the twins, named Eden and Savannah, were born at a Los Angeles hospital Tuesday and both mother and babies were doing well.

Nice to hear its possible to have healthy children at that age. To hear some girls I know talk you'd think that after 35 all pregnancies result in multiheaded things with webbed feet.

Actually, the risk of Down's syndrome and multiple births is so high after 40 that is prohibitively too risky IMO.

At age 25, a woman has about a 1-in-1,250 chance of having a baby with Down syndrome; at age 30, a 1-in-1,000 chance; at age 35, a 1-in-400 chance; at age 40, a 1-in-100 chance; and at 45, a 1-in-30 chance.

Ref: http://www.marchofdimes.com/professionals/681_1155.asp

-janelane, risk-adverse

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