** ARCHIV ** Zwei Neugeborene liegen am 22. Dezember 2008 auf der Geburtsstation des Klinikums Rosenheim in Oberbayern in einem Kinderbett. Die Zahl der Geburten ist im November 2008 im zweiten Monat in Folge drastisch eingebrochen. Mit einem Minus von 11,7 Prozent gegenueber dem entsprechenden Vorjahresmonat war der Geburtenrueckgang fast so hoch wie im Oktober, als er 11,9 Prozent betragen hatte, wie aus den am Montag, 9. Maerz 2009, veroeffentlichten vorlaeufigen Monatsergebnissen des Statistischen Bundesamtes hervorgeht. (AP Photo/Uwe Lein) ---** FILE ** Two newborn babies are seen at the hospital in Rosenheim, southern Germany, on Monday, Dec. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Uwe Lein) (AP)
I had my first child last year, a few months after I’d turned 45. I gave birth at an age when many of my friends were sending their first-borns off to college. Admittedly, for some of them, their first-borns may have been the result of poor planning or an “oops!” moment. Still, my husband and I (though he is six years younger than me) are taking on new parenthood at a time when most parents our age are looking ahead to diapering their first grandchild, not their own newborn.
I’m sure that when I was 25, if someone had told me that a 45-year-old woman maybe, just maybe, was wiser than me as a result of age and experience, I would have told that person to stuff it—except I would have used a less-polite term. But now, through benefit of that same age and experience that I didn’t used to think mattered, I now see that we older moms do offer certain advantages to our kids.
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