The lie of late motherhood - The Sunday Times 2nd December 2007

Childless women of my age, 41, talk breezily about IVF as though it were a procedure not dissimilar to Botox The number of women having babies in their forties has doubled in the past decade. I'm reluctant even to write about it, because it is precisely this kind of media coverage that encourages younger women to think, insanely in my view, that delaying motherhood until you’re middle-aged is a reasonable and straightforward thing to do.

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