I have just turned 45 and my baby is due in 8 weeks. I too have two older children(25 and 18) but my partner now didnt have any children when we got together 9 and a half years ago. We started trying when I was 37 and although I got pregnant very quickly miscarried 4 times in a row. It was devastating and we almost gave up. We gave it one more go and at the age of 39 I gave birth to our now 5year old son. No probs except I did have borderline gestational diabetes and my blood pressure went up at week 34. He was born full term though induced. We hadnt used contraception since he was around 2years old but nothing happened so we kind of just figured we were lucky to have him and didn't worry. Then in July last year I found out I was pregnant. I am almost 32 weeks now. My blood pressure has been fine but I developed gestational diabetes and am on insulin. All the tests on the baby so far have been normal and she seems to be doing fine. I will be induced at around 38 weeks because of the diabetes. I am overweight, have fibromyalgia, essential hypertension and am 45 so the odds were against me from the start! If you are really worried about down syndrome you can have an amnio but our tests came back as low risk after blood test and scan so we didnt bother. Good luck - ultimately the choice is yours:)
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I have just turned 45 and my baby is due in 8 weeks. I too have two older children(25 and 18) but my partner now didnt have any children when we got together 9 and a half years ago. We started trying when I was 37 and although I got pregnant very quickly miscarried 4 times in a row. It was devastating and we almost gave up. We gave it one more go and at the age of 39 I gave birth to our now 5year old son. No probs except I did have borderline gestational diabetes and my blood pressure went up at week 34. He was born full term though induced. We hadnt used contraception since he was around 2years old but nothing happened so we kind of just figured we were lucky to have him and didn't worry. Then in July last year I found out I was pregnant. I am almost 32 weeks now. My blood pressure has been fine but I developed gestational diabetes and am on insulin. All the tests on the baby so far have been normal and she seems to be doing fine. I will be induced at around 38 weeks because of the diabetes. I am overweight, have fibromyalgia, essential hypertension and am 45 so the odds were against me from the start! If you are really worried about down syndrome you can have an amnio but our tests came back as low risk after blood test and scan so we didnt bother. Good luck - ultimately the choice is yours:)
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