Fullofkittens wrote:

Q: Are women over age 35 at increased risk of having a baby with a birth defect?

A: Women over age 35 are at increased risk of having a child with certain birth defects involving chromosomes (the structures in cells that contain genes). Down syndrome is the most common chromosomal birth defect. Affected children have varying degrees of mental retardation and physical birth defects.

* At age 25, a woman has about a 1-in-1,250 chance of having a baby with Down syndrome.
* At age 30, a 1-in-1,000 chance.
* At age 35, a 1-in-400 chance.
* At age 40, a 1-in-100 chance.
* At 45, a 1-in-30 chance.
* At 49, a 1-in-10 chance (1, 4).

A 30 year old woman that stops the fucking drama already and gets down to business is less than half as likely to have a baby with the Downs compared to a woman that thinks she's such hot shit that she can afford to wait for some dream guy that's probably already married to a woman that isn't a psycho.

The woman that decides that men just aren't worth the trouble >:( and gets a sperm donor at age 40 is ten times as likely to give their child Downs. And make no mistake: the eggs and sperm don't have the birth defects built-in. These babies would have been normal if their mothers had been either A: less picky or B: more desirable.