In Vitro Fertility Goddess
I have a problem with the prenatal testing they send you for as an older mother. As if, as an older mother you don't have enough to worry about.
For example, are these memory problems due to pregnancy hormones or Alzheimers and should I be booking myself into Pine Needles Retirement Village the year my child starts at High School.
Not only is a potential joyous pregnancy marred with this testing and its possible results but one of the tests, amniocentesis, carries its own risk: it can be a cause of miscarriage! Prior to the amnio, they give you a Nuchal Translucency Test, which is special ultrasound to test for chances of Downs syndrome. If this test shows you are high risk, an amniocentesis follows, whereby they shove a needle through the stomach into the sac to extract amniotic fluid to test. Neither test has anywhere near a 100% accuracy so interpret the results according to whether you're an optimist or a pessimist.
I'm convinced that half the time you see the older mother celebrities frowning in their Versace maternity wear it's not, as the tabloids would have us believe, due to not being able to take movie roles or embark on world tours, but their impending prenatal testing results.
Who's to say that these people are not as shallow as they seem and have real worries like the rest of us?
Everyone assumed, for instance, that when Liz Hurley was pregnant the photos of her looking miserable were due to not fitting into her skimpy dresses but what if she was simply concerned that her baby would be a retarded billionaire? And if there's one thing the world doesn't need, it's another mentally deficient uber wealthy person. God knows we've got enough of them as it is.
Which begs the question, why are these people reproducing anyway? Haven't they got other more important pursuits like shopping and creating lead roles for themselves in movies they're producing because nobody else will hire them?
It hardly seems fair…
