The increasing number of women giving birth in later life is putting pressure on maternity units because they do not have enough specialists to deal with complications associated with older mothers. Older women are more likely to require a caesarean delivery or suffer a major haemorrhage than younger women during birth and so require consultants to be available.
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Older women 'pressure maternity' - BBC Health News 7th November 2007
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