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Queen Latifah says she’s ready to be a mommy.She’s the cover girl for More magazine, and she says she is going to adopt. Latifah has a new movie, Joyful Noise with Dolly Parton, coming out in January. Latifah is also working on a new talk show with Will Smith’s company that will debut next fall.
From the outside, Holly Finn certainly looks fertile.
With shoulder-length dark hair, smooth skin and a slim but curvaceous figure, the San Francisco-area writer could be any young mom with a baby on her hip.
But at 43, Finn says, her ovaries know better — and she would have, too, if not for what she believes is society’s widespread ignorance about infertility.
“I really feel that there are important pieces of information that don’t get passed along,” says Finn, who has now tried for four years to conceive through in-vitro fertilization. “I actually think it’s quite a brutal dishonesty.”
Most women aren’t taught — and don’t learn — basic facts about fertility and aging, says Finn, author of the e-book “The Baby Chase.” Instead, celeb moms the likes of Salma Hayek (a baby girl at 41), Marcia Cross (twins at 44) and Mariah Carey (twins at 41) make being an older mom look easy — and glamorous.
“It’s not that we’re stupid,” she says. “It’s that we’ve been misinformed.”
As proof, she points to a new survey conducted on behalf of RESOLVE, the National Infertility Association, and presented at the American Society of Reproductive Medicine’s recent annual meeting.
The poll of 1,000 women ages 25 to 35 who had talked to doctors about fertility found that participants could correctly answer seven out of 10 basic questions less than half the time. The Fertility IQ 2011 Survey found that women were wrong most often about how long it takes to get pregnant — and about how much fertility declines at various ages.
“We were not at all surprised,” says Barbara Collura, executive director of RESOLVE. “This is what we experience every day.”
Most women simply don’t realize that at 30, a healthy woman has about a 20 percent chance of conceiving and by the time she reaches 40, her odds drop to about 5 percent per month, Collura said.
Instead, many of those surveyed thought that a 30-year-old woman would have a 70 percent chance of conceiving and that a 40-year-old’s chances could approach 60 percent.
They also believed that a 20-year-old woman might get pregnant in less than two months of unprotected sex, rather than the five months that is the average.
“It’s basic biology and basic knowledge of how age impacts your fertility if you’re a woman,” says Collura.
But most women aren’t getting those basics until it’s too late, said Dr. William Schoolcraft, medical director of the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine in Denver and two other locations.
“It’s basic biology and basic knowledge of how age impacts your fertility if you’re a woman,” says Collura.
But most women aren’t getting those basics until it’s too late, said Dr. William Schoolcraft, medical director of the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine in Denver and two other locations.
“They don’t even come in for fertility treatment until they’re literally in their 40s,” he said. “Some come in and they have run out of time.”
In a country where sex education focuses primarily on avoiding pregnancy and preventing sexually transmitted diseases, most women believe that having a baby is inevitably easy.
But that neglects the reality that infertility affects some 7.3 million women in the United States, or 12 percent of the child-bearing female population, and about 1 in 8 couples, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. After about age 35, fertility plummets, Schoolcraft said.
So when women decide they want to get pregnant and can’t, they’re stunned. Some of the shock is because of advances in health and beauty that allow women to look — and feel — younger, even as their reproductive systems march on.
“People kind of think now at 40 what they used to think at 30,” Schoolcraft said. “People do yoga and they run and they do all these healthy things. They assume that means ‘I’m not aging.’ But their eggs don’t know that.”
Part of the disconnect is because of advances in infertility treatment, which have helped boost the rates of births among women in their 40s, even as rates have dropped for younger moms. Between 2008 and 2009, births in women aged 20 to 24 reached a record low, falling 7 percent. At the same time, the rates for women aged 40 to 44 jumped 3 percent and births to women older than 50 climbed 5 percent.
Those numbers are exemplified by a series of high-profile births in older celebrities, including icons such as Kelly Preston (son at 48), Holly Hunter (twins at 47) and Jane Seymour (twins at 44.)
What’s going with Chad Ochocinco Johnson? The Cincinnati Bengals football/reality star may be having a fifth child with a local woman, who he had been secretly seeing. Ochocinco has been involved with Evelyn Lozada from Basketball Wives. Sources say that could be a fake relationship, and that the quiet sidejawn could actually be pregnant. How sloppy Ocho!
When will Mariah Carey fess up? She’s pregnant, but Carey is very superstitious, and she will tell all when the time is right. Hubby Nick Cannon has been besieged with calls, but he is keeping her secret.
Yes, Mariah like me and everybody else can only tell?!?
Somebody’s trying to kill us! Well that may sound a bit extreme, but it may be true. Babies in China drinking a particular brand of powdered milk may be causing infants to start puberty a bit prematurely.
According to reports, three babies between 4 and 15 months have shown signs of that dreaded time in everyone’s life, including growth of breasts!
The babies have the same amount of estradiol
(aka the female sex hormone) as any adult woman. The company responsible for manufacturing the product denies that any of its milk is contaminated with any thing. But I’m not so sure about that.
Remember that lead episode with China. They denied that their toys had poisons in them. Who’s to say their milk doesn’t.
21 Dead Infants Wash Ashore in China River. Beijing is staring a controversy in the face, but in one day the dumping of 21 dead infants in a river has turned from a horrific medical action to maybe it’s a cultural thing. NOT!! According to the Associated Press, the Shandong province-based Qilu Evening News reported that hospitals normally ask the family to take dead infants. Also, some rural families in China see the death of a young child as bad luck among some rural families, and the baby is abandoned or put in an unmarked grave. The two mortuary workers responsible for the dumping of these babies have been arrested, but nothing telling authorities why they did this. Allegedly, the families paid them to get rid of the infants…but…not like this. Could you imagine swimming along in the river and a dead baby floats up next to you or a part of the baby floats by you? The people who discovered the baby nearly had that experience. According to the report, one of the babies was in a yellow plastic bag marked “medical waste.” Ridiculous!
Padded Bra Bikini’s Aimed at 7-Year Olds. Our babies are being targeted by the money hungry retail industry. Leading the charge is british retailer Primark. But they wouldn’t be selling this stuff if parents would show better judgement than to purchase a swimming suit with a padded bra inside for a child. What kind of ridiculous mess is that? They want the babies to appear that they have something they know they are not going to be sharing with anyone anytime soon. But not only are they selling padded bikini tops to seven-year-olds, they are selling BIKINIS to them! That may be old fashioned of me, but I think it’s horrible to see little girls in bikinis at that age. Hell! the grown women that embarrass themselves in them summer after summer is enough. Very few manage to fill them out properly. According to MSNBC, Primark was under fire immediately. Parents and politicians were in an uproar over what they called the “sexualization” of their children. Primark couldn’t snatch the bikini tops off the shelves fast enough. Not in the U.S. though. We are sitting by watching five-year-olds walk around in heels while shorts and dresses get shorter everyday and the fashions of those under 10 resemble those of their mothers. Have you tried to buy your four or five-year old daughter some shoes lately? Right! They don’t exist! And when you get lucky enough to find them a pair of shoes, the shoes and/or boots look like you should be buying them for yourself, not a five-year-old.