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How to explain late-in-life pregnancies to intrusive questioners

I am pregnant at forty-two and people keep asking if it was planned and I do not know how to answer because it was wanted but not expected.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The social scrutiny of reproductive timing reveals cultural anxieties about appropriate life sequencing and maternal age.

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