Unplanned pregnancy warning to older women being 35

Experts bother older women are ditching contraception hold the mistaken belief that they cannot get pregnant past a certain age.


The familiar organization Association (FPA) believes the notice on infertility and age has gone "too far".

Although fertility does wane, womanliness can still fall pregnant without reservation interestedness their thirties, forties again same fifties.

Abortion rates for women aged 40 to 44 match those now the under 16s, figures due to England and Wales show.

In 2008, both of these groups had an abortion ratio of four per 1,000 women.

There are many reasons why some manhood opt for an abortion - including birth abnormalities in the baby, which are more usual when the mothers are older.

But FPA says its anecdotal establish suggests some of the abortions are because women wrongly invented they could not obtain powerful because they were extraordinarily old.

Aimed at women aged 35 and over, the FPA's heavier campaign 'Conceivable?' reminds women to forge ahead wary about unplanned ripening besides to keep using contraception until after the menopause if they bring about not eagerness to become pregnant.

Chief executive of the FPA Julie Bentley said: "Whilst the message about fertility declining with age is an important one, de facto is often overplayed, alongside disproportionate messaging about unplanned teenage pregnancies.

"It sends an inaccurate message to male again society that discrete the young fall pregnant and is leading older men to believe their fertility has bewildered want before it actually has."

Once is enough

She said women should realise corporeal is entirely conceivable that just one night of unprotected sex in your belated 30s, 40s and even 50s can end in an slapdash pregnancy.

"Our helpline receives calls from such women, amazed this has happened to them.

"They thought their age would protect them from becoming pregnant."

She said in routine all methods of contraception were serviceable because the over-35s.

Women aged 30 to 34 persevere to have the highest fertility rate - 113.1 live births per 1,000 women.

But the scale among women aged 40 and for has more than doubled because 1988, from 5.1 to 12.6 per 1,000 women, and licensed were supplementary than 26,000 efficacious births to women in this thrive group in 2008, figures from the Office for National Statistics show.

Emily James of Marie Stopes International said: "Many older female hostile an unplanned development are fairly shocked to boast themselves direction this position - many conjecture that their irregular periods are due to menopause, again are surprised to learn that they are in fact eloquent.

"It is vital that womanliness of unimpaired ages are provided ensconce the information, support and use they need when deciding whether or not to continue with an unplanned pregnancy."