Actress Kim Fields announces she’s pregnant at 44, as some say it’s safe to be an older mom

CLUTCH - In this month’s Atlantic magazine, Jean M. Twenge argues that everything women have been told about our ability to have children after 35 is wrong...

alexisgarrettstodghill

Jul 26, 2013

From Clutch Magazine:

Not a week goes by that someone doesn’t ask me if I want to have another kid. Although I’m 33, and have a beautiful 7-year-old son, folks never quite cease to ask if I’d like to add to my brood.

At the moment, the answer is solidly no. And while I used rule it out all together, citing my age as the main reason, I’m not so sure anymore.

Recently Kim Fields (of Living Single and Facts of Life fame) announced she was pregnant her second child. The 44-year-old actress said she and her husband tried to conceive for a couple of years (they have a six-year-old son), before finding out that she was pregnant.

Fields’ story is not quite unique, but it further highlights a growing trend of women waiting longer to have children.

But should we?

In this month’s Atlantic magazine, Jean M. Twenge argues that everything women have been told about our ability to have children after 35 is wrong. While women have been told that our fertility decreases drastically after age 35, Twenge poured through the data and found that is not quite true.

Read the rest of this story on Clutch Magazine.