MUMS of 30 or over have nearly half of all babies, it was revealed yesterday.
More and more tots are also being born to career women who put off having a family until their forties, says the Office for National Statistics.The new figures — for England and Wales — show 49 per cent of newborns last year had mothers who were no longer in their 20s.
Women in their forties had almost 30,000 babies — FOUR times more than in the 1980s. Of those, nearly 2,000 were aged 45 and over. The overall average age for mums is 29.8 and 28.1 for first-time mothers.
Royal College of Midwives chief executive Cathy Warwick said yesterday: “This shows the changing demographics of childbirth.”
She warned older women were more likely to have complications and premature babies. She said: “Other issues such as rising levels of obesity also lead to births becoming more complex.”
Because mothers are older they are more likely to be in a stable relationship, the figures reveal.
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