Late Babies: Having a Baby After 35
By (Author) Sandra McLean
Transworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia)
Bantam
1st September 2004
Australia
General
Non Fiction
Sociology: family and relationships
618.2
Paperback
338
Width 154mm, Height 233mm, Spine 25mm
432g
You'll laugh, you'll cry as a line-up of admired Australian women share their stories of having babies after the age of 35. They are the new face of Australian motherhood - women over 35 who are having their first baby. But what makes a woman defy the biological clock and wait until she is in her mid-thirties or early forties to have a baby Career keeping her up at night Can't find Mr Right If only it was that simple.
'It wasn't a conscious choice to have children or not. That cartoon which used to be popular, "Oops... I forgot to have a baby." That was me.' DEBORAH THOMAS, editor, The Australian Women's Weekly 'It was a miracle for me to fall pregnant, an extraordinary miracle.' MAGGIE ALDERSON, journalist and author
Sandra McLean is a journalist with 22 years' experience working in newspapers in Australia and the UK. She lives in Brisbane with her husband, journalist and author Phil Brown, and their "late baby", Hamish.