Maternal Age Quotes

My father himself was a human geneticist who was recognized for demonstrating that older mothers tend to get more Down syndrome children, but he had lots of scientific interests.

Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.

I caught a lot of flak for being a young mama.

My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother.

For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.

I've always felt there are two things a woman should never do after the age of thirty-five: stand in natural light and have a baby.

Been thinking about having a baby. But if I want to do it, I'd have to do it soon 'cause it's getting near closing time. The clock is ticking. My gynecologist said, if I wanted to have a baby, I would have to do it - the latest - by the ended of this show.

Being an older mom, I'm super mellow with my kids. Also, "curious" and "loving.

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

I don't think a lot of women know how much their chances of having a child diminish as they age.

A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, "Thirty-five children is enough for any woman.

My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.

In 1970, the average woman had her first child at 21.4; by 2012, it was almost 26, an age by which many young adults are at least a few years deep into jobs or careers.

I have two children myself. I always laugh; they have you playing mothers pretty early, us women. You look at the television, the mothers get younger and younger, and the children get older and older, and you start to wonder when these people had these children. Were they breeding when they were 12?

The good thing about having a kid is you don't think about that as much. Like when I turned 30, for instance, that was much more momentous. Forty is particularly great for a woman. It's a big thing.

I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.

When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.

I'm still friends with the girls I grew up with, and they're all on their second child. They're all like, 'Don't be in your 40s by the time you have kids,' and I'm like, 'Why not? There's nothing wrong with that.'

I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday, but I needed to be 'ready,' ya know?

I don't know why this is, maybe because I am 33 or what, but I didn't think it would be that easy for me to get pregnant. But it was.

I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.

I think I'd be more relaxed as an older mum, although fundamentally life with a baby is pretty much the same whatever age you are. It's nappies, crying, feeding.

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

Despite amazing advances in fertility to help older women get pregnant, the complications, increased chances of autism, and chromosomal abnormalities are significant considerations.

No, but women are saying, and they say, are you crazy? But because they've had children since they were 20 years old. I haven't. So I had a child when I was 43, and now he's really out with his friends.