Complications of Old-Age Pregnancy

There are people who choose to get married at an older age and most of the time they made this decision in order to be assured that they would not be committing mistakes or experience the problems that younger couples have to deal with.

Getting married at an older age surely has its advantages like having a more secured status in life or having a more matured mind that can really help in dealing with the possible problems effectively. However it also poses some risks especially on the woman’s pregnancy. Older people will usually have a harder time to conceive a child and when they do, there are lots of complications that may come along with the pregnancy and these things will surely create discomforts not only to the mother but to the baby as well.

  • Increased Blood Pressure
  • Prolonged Labor
  • Miscarriage
  • Fetal Distress
  • Birth Defects

Pregnancy should be an experience that will bring great memories and not situations that will only cause worries for the people involve. Women who gets pregnant at the age of 35 or more are at risk for different complications and perhaps the only thing that they can do is to eat right, take the necessary vitamins, and protect the baby in the womb by getting the right amount of rest and sleep and by using a pregnancy belly band or a maternity support belt that can support the baby in the mother’s womb. Old age pregnancy can really bring complications and it is definitely up to the pregnant mother to protect the baby that you’ve longed for at all cost to avoid dealing with regrets in the end.