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in participation, maybe. Welcome to The Waves, Slates Podcast about gender, vaginas, and

why old white men maybe shouldn't be the ones to name them. Every episode this month,

you get me, Cat Chow, talking with someone smart about something I cannot get out of my brain.

So the other day, and this is something I hear somewhat frequently, hello 30s,

a friend went to the gynecologist and was having an exam. And the doctor told her,

if you want kids one day, you should get pregnant soon. Otherwise, you're going to have a

geriatric pregnancy. My friend is 35. Alright, so we've all said that 40s of the new 30 and 50s

of the new 40s. So then why, if you get pregnant the day after your 35th birthday, are you suddenly

old? It's true. Any pregnancy over the age of 35 is considered a pregnancy of advanced maternal

age or even worse, a geriatric pregnancy. Geriatric pregnancy is a term that I think about a lot.

We know so little about the female reproductive system. And I'm interested in who is making the

decisions about our bodies, the scientists, the researchers, the doctors who decide what to call

our experiences and how to study them, how their own biases affect our lives.

Geriatric pregnancy, just a little bit of a history lesson, it comes from a procedure in the

1970s that screened for genetic abnormalities. So in the 1970s was when we were first developing

technology to look at a growing fetus. And that involved a small amount of risk to the fetus.

That's Rachel E. Gross. You'll be hearing from her today later in the show.

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