Jessica Austin's List: Advanced Maternal Age

• Week       Stillbirth Rate*   Likelihood of Living Baby*  Stillbirth Rate Women 40+yoa~     Likelihood of Living Baby~
• Even in the worst case scenario of the numbers available to me for an otherwise healthy mama-baby dyad, there is a greater than 99.5% chance that a living baby will be born. 
• if you have other risk-factors
• the newest study I've found on the topic.  I
• April 2013
• this study showed that being a woman 40+ years of age in and of itself, in the absence of other risk factors, does NOT increase the risk of stillbirth. 
• "Maternal age should be combined with other maternal characteristics and obstetric history when calculating an individualised adjusted risk for adverse pregnancy complications."
  

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• Maternal age should be combined with other maternal characteristics and obstetric history when calculating an individualized adjusted risk for adverse pregnancy complications.