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Is this a correct way in which to spend NHS money?

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anotheoldgit | 09:55 Sun 20th May 2012 | News
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http://www.dailymail....-lifts-age-limit.html

Apart from the financial aspect, is it wise to encourage women to have a child at the age of 42?

/// Fertility experts said the recommendations may encourage more women to delay having babies until middle age, which puts both mother and child at risk. Children born to women over 40 are more likely to have abnormalities, and mothers are more likely to have problems during labour. ///

Apparently this has all come about because of concerns in the NHS that the existing age limit could leave clinics open to legal challenges under new age-discrimination laws.
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TCL's maths seem fine to me: in the absence of exact figures, the true figure looks likely to be about 25-30%. That's not "nearly half" - I wonder where the Mail got that from.
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/// the true figure looks likely to be about 25-30%. That's not "nearly half" - I wonder where the Mail got that from. ///

Maybe from this:

/// Half of all pregnant women aged 42 experience miscarriage. This disheartening figure rises to three quarters for women aged 45 years or more. ///

http://www.babycentre...tivelytrying/forties/
How perceptions change..............I had my daughter at the age of 21, at that time first-time mothers over the age of 30 were considered old.
that could be the case, aog.

It seems though there is some debate over what is a miscarriage

http://www.telegraph....lse-miscarriages.html

(That refers to women of all ages so shouldn't affect the figures you give)
I'd have more faith in the figures shown on the English NHS' website than those provided by a site ultimately owned by an American conglomerate
Infertility is not an illness, end of story.

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