In Praise Of the Male Biological Clock
No One Likes Nature’s Inflexibility, But Maybe Now Young People Will Push to Have Kids-And A Life
When my husband and I had our first child, our son, I had to look up the strangely ominous label I’d read on my chart: “elderly primigravida.” With visions of wrinkled babushkas hovering in my already anxious mind, I discovered it was the medical term for a woman who becomes pregnant for the first time at age 35 or older.
A few years later I was pregnant with our second child, our daughter, when the physician’s assistant in my doctor’s office urged me to reconsider an amniocentesis test I’d just declined. …
