Am I Too Old to Have Another Baby?

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🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Am I Too Old to Have Another Baby?: After 16 years of marriage, Bridget and her husband are wondering if they should add a baby to their family. - Dr. Laura: "Don't do anything you're not ready to sacrifice for." | Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://www.drlaura.com/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this edition of the Call of the Day.
0:03.8	Be sure to listen to my program Monday through Friday now heard on Sirius XM Triumph 2011.
0:09.8	Bridget, welcome to the program.
0:12.0	Hi, hello. I never thought I would call you some, my heart's beating really fast.
0:16.4	Welcome. What can I do for you?
0:19.8	Thank you. Well, I would like an outsider's perspective.
0:24.8	Somebody who doesn't have any, doesn't know me, I guess. What's going on is I've
0:31.4	been married for 16 years. I have a 15 year old and a 13 year old.
0:36.4	And my husband and I are at a crossroads whether deciding whether to have a baby
0:41.6	because this would be the last year, an R opinion to do it.
0:46.0	She wants to 110 percent. I'm sort of on the fence.
0:50.3	You want to know maybe not? No, you're not on the fence.
0:54.9	That's a fib. You don't think that's what you say because you're too scared to
0:58.3	take a position which is you don't want to go through the baby thing again.
1:04.0	I do. I just don't want to, what if I look at fibs? I'm certified.
1:09.2	That's a fib. It's a fib.
1:15.3	I just worry about birth defects, I guess, this might because I don't know if I'm too old.
1:20.2	Because I had kids so young, it's that you could have had birth defects with any of them.
1:27.9	That's true.
1:36.9	Yeah.
1:40.6	It's such a hard decision. I know it's a personal decision.
1:43.4	No, I think it's a very easy one. You either want to do the sacrificing to deal with
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