Reproductive Timing Quotes

I always wanted children late; I had my first daughter at 39 and the second at 45.

It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.

With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.

I do think it was fantastic to have a kid young. My friends now are all panicking if they haven't found somebody to have kids with. It was never like that for me because I already had the kid!

For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.

I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.'

I don't buy the 'at 60 it's great to have kids' thing. I don't buy the line that has been thrown down - 'You can have a kid at any time.' That doesn't mean you should.

I'm not going to have a baby until I'm around 30-something.

If women are doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at the worst time - between the ages of 25 to 30 or whatever it is. It ruins the five years of their lives.

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

The biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict with each other.

So many women waited until later to get married and then even later after they got married to have children. And then they have problems, and it takes them five, six, seven years to have children.

I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body.

People make me feel like I have a problem because I haven't had a kid yet.

I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.

I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your kids by the time you're 12 or it's all over. Please.

People shouldn't be allowed to get married until it's too late to have kids.

Men want children later, but women can't rely on being able to. So I'm all for scientific advances and the help they can give people.