TBT Lifestyle Desk: Late-life mothering increases the chance of a woman living longer than most of her peers, a new study says.
The researchers made a comparison between women who had their last child when they were 29 years old and those who had a child later in life. They realized that a woman who gave birth at the age of 33 was two times likely to outlive 95 percent of her age mates. Those who had their last child between the age of 33 and 37 had the best chance of surviving longest; they were about 2.08 times likely to live to an unusual old age. Those who had a child after they were 37 years old were 1.92 times to live that long.
The study involved a research on motherhood and survival and involved about 4,800 participants from 551 families in Denmark and the United States. The study aimed at finding out the factors that could predict long life. All the women in the study had given birth to at least one child. They made comparisons in child bearing histories of two groups of women. Group one had 311 women from Long Life Family Study. The women had lived longer than 95 percent of their women age mates. The second group had 151 women who were not in the first 5 percent but had lived for more than 70 years.
The team sought to find the link between childbearing years and the chances of becoming the ‘oldest of old ladies’. Is it that what does not kill you makes you strong? The children need a mom to make a sandwich for them or offer one more piece of advice.
This study extended the findings of some previous studies. It suggested that robust women are likely to live long and their potential to live longest could be revealed by their ability to have children at advanced ages.
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