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Am I too old
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Thinking of trying for a baby...but as im late 30s, what are my chances ? Can I ask the doctor for certain tests to check my hormone levels and can they test if im ovulating or not ?
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go for it !!!!!!!!!!!! there is no reason your age should make it difficult to get pregnant, my nan had a baby at 53! However your doctor should make you aware that there is a slightly increased chance of having a baby with downs syndrome etc, but dont let this put you off as millions of women go on to have very happy healthy babies. sending good luck your way
thats not too old.
Re: the risk of downs, i would suggest that if your hospital doesnt offer a nuchal scan (not all do it at 12 week scan) then for a cost of about �170 you can have a private scan and bloods taken which give a much more accurate figure for the risk. By age at 35 i think my chance of a downs baby were 1 in 250, by taking bloods and doing scan and combing the results it reduced to 1 in 4000 or something.
i found the cost was worth it for the peace of mind.
Re: the risk of downs, i would suggest that if your hospital doesnt offer a nuchal scan (not all do it at 12 week scan) then for a cost of about �170 you can have a private scan and bloods taken which give a much more accurate figure for the risk. By age at 35 i think my chance of a downs baby were 1 in 250, by taking bloods and doing scan and combing the results it reduced to 1 in 4000 or something.
i found the cost was worth it for the peace of mind.
Hlo again,sqad. Further evidence we can communicate better than some on this godforsaken site (always supposing you meant to include mine among the "success posts".)
Do check out my earlier attempt at communciation in gratitiude for your sympathetic response to my posts re the rough-and-tumble of diagnostic medicine on the ''breathing probs' thread:
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Body-and-Soul/Q uestion720953.html
Now perhaps we can communicate about your in-jargonistic "primip". Can you explain the etymology of it? To me it sounds suspiciously as if it might be a bit unPC, like a portmanteau word bundling up the 'prim' of 'prima gravida' and the 'ip' of 'gossip' or perhaps 'turnip-head'. (Not strictly etymologically speaking, obviously, as the former is a sib and the latter a neep!)
Do check out my earlier attempt at communciation in gratitiude for your sympathetic response to my posts re the rough-and-tumble of diagnostic medicine on the ''breathing probs' thread:
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Body-and-Soul/Q uestion720953.html
Now perhaps we can communicate about your in-jargonistic "primip". Can you explain the etymology of it? To me it sounds suspiciously as if it might be a bit unPC, like a portmanteau word bundling up the 'prim' of 'prima gravida' and the 'ip' of 'gossip' or perhaps 'turnip-head'. (Not strictly etymologically speaking, obviously, as the former is a sib and the latter a neep!)
No, sqad, it is of course you who are spot on. I wasn't quite. I was using the commoner (and prob less medical) expression 'prima gravida' or 'primagravida' (total of 63,690 hits on Google vs 58,000 for 'primigravida').
If indeed it is 'less medical', that is no doubt because it�s wrong! Obviously I am not as medical as I thought. I don't think I had seen 'primigravida' before, or if I had, I hadnt noticed the difference, though with my eagle eyes that is unlikely. (The eyes are getting ever less aquiline, however, as I complained here , incurring an extraordinary attack, followed by wranglings which may amuse you.)
It�s wrong because it means �first pregnant woman� rather than �woman pregnant for the first time�, for God�s sake. How can it be so common, even outside medical literature? Because people like me use it without thinking, is why. What a disgrace! And me a trained classicist. 'Primigravida' is of course parallel to and analogous with �primipara�, and actually synonymous with it, or as nearly so as it�s possible to get without going into maths or something!
Now that you have (so unobtrusively, as opposed to the farrago I have linked to above) put me right, I shall of course follow your lead and use the spelling with i. Moreover I shall no doubt be seeing it now that I have noticed it.
But you still don�t explain the �p of �primip�. Playful elaboration I suppose. Self-explanatory, really!
If indeed it is 'less medical', that is no doubt because it�s wrong! Obviously I am not as medical as I thought. I don't think I had seen 'primigravida' before, or if I had, I hadnt noticed the difference, though with my eagle eyes that is unlikely. (The eyes are getting ever less aquiline, however, as I complained here , incurring an extraordinary attack, followed by wranglings which may amuse you.)
It�s wrong because it means �first pregnant woman� rather than �woman pregnant for the first time�, for God�s sake. How can it be so common, even outside medical literature? Because people like me use it without thinking, is why. What a disgrace! And me a trained classicist. 'Primigravida' is of course parallel to and analogous with �primipara�, and actually synonymous with it, or as nearly so as it�s possible to get without going into maths or something!
Now that you have (so unobtrusively, as opposed to the farrago I have linked to above) put me right, I shall of course follow your lead and use the spelling with i. Moreover I shall no doubt be seeing it now that I have noticed it.
But you still don�t explain the �p of �primip�. Playful elaboration I suppose. Self-explanatory, really!
...Indeed, there is nothing more amusing than the volte-face exhibited when a person deliberately seeks to elevate themself above other users of a website by posting in a fashion so as to render them unintelligible to hoi polloi but then must resort to plain English and sycophancy when seeking the support of the snubbed.
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