How Older Parenthood Will Upend American Society

ABC News:  Oldest U.S. Mom of Twins Is 65 and ‘More Excited’ Than Ever 

Time Magazine: Older Dads – Autism and Schizophrenia? 

Faith Salie on Her First Mother’s Day as a Later Mom (CBS)

Irish Independent: Women Staying in School Longer

Fox News: Advanced Maternal Age and Health of Kids

People Magazine: Leigh-Allyn Baker, 40, Has a Boy

CNN: Moms and Botox  

Yahoo: Alanis Morisette on Postpartum Depression

CBS News:  Common Myths About Having a Child Later in Life

The Paramus Post:  Myths About Later Motherhood

 The New York Times:  “Can a Mom Get a Break?”

ABC News:  NYC Mayor Bloomberg- Breastfeeding vs. Formula

People Magazine:  A Working Mom on Nursing – Reality Check

Middletown Journal: Age is No Object

Daily Mail: Alanis Morissette on Breastfeeding 

KGW-Portland, OR: Later Moms Fertility Testing

The Oakland Press: Moms Rally Against Deadly Chemicals 

MSNBC.com:More Older Moms Don’t Stop With One Baby, New Study Finds

Babble.com:  Celebrity Parents on Autism Awareness

The Herald Tribune: Genetic Clues to Autism

Malta Today: Autism and Older Parents

Autism Linked to Obesity (USA Today)

Who woulda thunk?! (New York Post)

SOUND OFF: 53 And Pregnant! How Old Is Too Old?  (CBS – NY)

Parents of a Certain Age (NY Magazine)

Jewel & Ty Murray: We’re Having a Baby (People)

Sir Elton John and David Furnish are Dads (The Independent)

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban Parents Again (People)

Baby Born to John Travolta, 53, and Kelly Preston, 48 (ABC News)

Christina Applegate Has a Baby Girl (People)

Study: 1 in 7 U.S. Babies Born to Moms 35+ (CBS News)

Woman from India is oldest to give birth to triplets at 66 (BioNews)

Britain’s oldest in-vitro mom (NY Daily News)

Woman, 49, oldest in-vitro pregnancy (NY Post)

Hollywood’s Midlife Baby Boom (More.com)

Midlife Baby Boom: Famous Moms Over 40 (Newsweek)

‘Spotlight to Nightlight’: Mid-Life Motherhood (Yahoo)

Lisa Loeb Expecting First Child (Access Hollywood)

Kara DioGuardi New Mom Removes Uterus Due to Cancer Gene (OnTheRedCarpet.com)

Olympian Shannon Miller Pregnant (People.com)

Maya Rudolph Expecting Fourth Child (UsMagazine.com)

Penelope Cruz Shows Off Baby Bump (UsMagazine.com)

Elizabeth Banks: ‘Now I’m Really A Mom!’ (justjared.com)

Halle Berry Pregnant with Second Child at Age 46 (CNN.com)

Sofia Vergara Using a Surrogate (Hollywoodlife.com)

Alyssa Milano welcomes baby boy (mnn.com)

Vardalos’s road to fame, motherhood, weight loss (The Boston Globe)

Sarah Jessica Parker Expecting Twins (People)

Molly Ringwald Pregnant With Twins and to Write a 40 Something Book (Contact Music)

Vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin balances work, motherhood (Dallas News)

Funny Girl: Molly Shannon (NY Post)

Three movies and an empty nest for Sigourney Weaver (USA Today)

Giada De Laurentiis has a baby girl! (Today.com)

Courtney Thorne-Smith has a baby boy (MSNBC)

Nancy Grace: Motherhood Won’t Soften Me (ABC News)

CNN’s Nancy Grace Has Twins (The Star)

Study: Older mothers may live longer (UPI)

Pregnancy not any easier for women over 40 – VIDEO (MSN)

Is 40 too old to have a baby? – VIDEO (MSN)

Having kids at 40  (MSNBC.com)

Mary-Louise Parker adopts a child from Africa (People)

Halle Berry pregnant with first child (Detroit Free Press)

60-year-old Mom did this ‘to help others’ – VIDEO (MSN)

At last, a baby for Kelly (Klein) after all these years (NY Post)

INFERTILITY IN THE NEWS

Report: High-fat dairy diet may aid fertility for some (USA Today)

Motherhood inching later in life (USA Today)

Mother, May I? Late Motherhood Emerges (WebMD)

Two new magazines offer advice about infertility and motherhood later in life (US News)

Mid-Life Motherhood (DukeHealth.org)

Elizabeth Gregory: Ready or Not? (Huffington Post)

What do Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, and Michelle Obama have in common? They all began their families at relatively advanced ages Hillary was 32 when she had Chelsea in 1980, Laura was 35 when the twins arrived in 1981, and Michelle was 34 and 37 at the births of her daughters in 1998 and 2001 All three are part of a decades-old worldwide trend among women, who, when offered the chance, often choose to start their families later (sometimes quite a bit later) than their mothers did…(READ MORE)