Women having children when they are older, over 45, has doubled in the last 10 years. Is this a more socially accepted choice?
Willaim speaks to two mother's who had children later in life, Hannah Saunders and Lynn Doak along with commentor Fionola Meredith who had her first child at twenty.
The number of women here becoming a mother over the age of 45 has doubled. And
Northern Ireland's latest batch of pregnancy statistics shows the lowest rate of teenage pregnancies on record. Is that a sign of progress for women's rights or a new social problem in the making? We speak to Hannah Saunders, who had two children in her forties, Lynn Doak who had her first baby at fourty and is due to have her second baby any time now and commentator Fionola Meredith who had her first child at the age of twenty.
FIONOLA MEREDITH had her first child at the age of twenty
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