Best Project in Life: Even Hot Movie Stars Need To Make Babies Before Forty
By Robert Latkany, MDEdited by Sarah Varney
July 09, 2009
Penelope Cruz announced in the August 2009 issue of Psychologies that she would like to have kids, but not now, and wants "to do it really well" and to make it her "best project in life". Penelope is 35 years old and her boyfriend Javier Bardem is 40 years old. They are two of the hottest movie stars working today.
If they stay together for the next nine months or so the whole world will no doubt wait with bated breath to gaze upon the beauty of their offspring. Maybe she'll explain what she meant by doing "it very well" too. At any rate, she might want to consider scheduling the baby making soon.
After evaulating 3,174 births, de la Rochebrochard et al determined that the risk of miscarriage was greater if the woman is older than thirty-five and the man is older than forty. After an analysis of 31 studies, Huang found that women over the age of thirty-five are more than four times likely to have a stillbirth than younger women.
Although it is unknown how long Ms. Cruz would like to wait before trying to get pregnant, if she delivers when she is forty or older, there is a greater likelihood of complications. Ziadeh et al evaluated the pregnancy outcomes of almost 500 women forty years of age or older and found that women who gave birth for the first time over the age of forty gave birth to babies significantly lower in birth weight and were more likely to be premature compared to younger women.
Older women were also more likely to deliver by Caesarean section or have gestational diabetes pre-eclampsia and placenta previa. Abnormal labor and lower Apgar scores were also observed. Despite the higher maternal morbidity, Ziadah in a separate study, determined that babies born to older first-time mothers were just as healthy as those born to younger first-time mothers. While juggling men and a booming acting career, we all hope that Ms. Cruz finds the time to have children and does it "very well".
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