Late pregnancy increases maternal mortality

Postpone the maternity Even after having achieved academic, professional and economic successes, it is an increasingly common choice among Mexican women.

Only in the Hospital of Gynecology and Obstetrics of the National Medical Center La Raza , 12% of pregnant They are over 40 years old.

The decision to become "old" mothers, as they have been called, pushes them to multiple risks such as abortions , diabetes gestational mellitus, preeclampsia Y eclampsia , births premature and higher risk of congenital malformations in newborns.

In accordance with Edgardo Puello Tamara, chief of the obstetrics division of the Gynecology Hospital of La Raza , the Mexican women seek to satisfy their reproductive needs until the last moment, but when this happens, they are already at the other end of the reproductive life, which would be after 35 years of age.

The specialist emphasizes that after 30 years, women already suffer from disease chronic-degenerative as diabetes , hypertension or lupus , and if to this is added a pregnancy , this will be very high risk.

"It is fully demonstrated that maternal morbidity and mortality increases in all females who become pregnant after 35 years of age," said Puello Tamara.

The specialist emphasizes that the ideal age to get pregnant is between 20 and 35 years. In the following video, Dr. Ester Feldman explains why the age of the couple influences the problems of fertility , as well as the risks of a woman who becomes pregnant after the age of 35:

The doctor of Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) commented that mature women are multigestant (with more than one pregnancy ); although in the last 15 years there has been an increase in first-time moms, over 40 years old, who decided to go against their biological clock and delay the arrival of their first baby.

Approximately 80% of older women, thanks to good prenatal control, culminates with a pregnancy successful, but the other 20% will end in a abortion or in a Birth premature.

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