Statistics show that the number of women giving birth to their first child after 30 is steadily growing: over the past twenty years, the number of women who have decided to become a mother for the first time only after 30 has tripled. And the leader among European countries, where this trend is most pronounced, is Italy..

According to the European Perinatal Health Report released this week, 34.7% of Italian women give birth after the age of 35.. In second place in the " Ireland closes the top three with a figure of 27.9%, according to Pannochka, an online publication for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old.. net Switzerland, which ranked only fourth in this " In the country of chocolate, watches and banks, only 1.1% of women give birth before the age of 20.. Slightly more such women in Italy, the Netherlands and Denmark - 1.4% each. But more often than others, before reaching the age of twenty, Romanian women give birth - 10.6%.

It is also noteworthy that despite the large number of " However, Cyprus stands out in this statistical segment, where more than half of the women (52%) undergo caesarean section.. Italy ranks second in this part, with a figure of 38%..

Despite the fact that most pregnancies end in successful delivery, regardless of the age of the mother, experts still urge not to delay the birth of the first child.. No matter how “beautiful” the infant mortality statistics in Europe look, the problem of late births is very worrying for experts - too early and too late births negatively affect the health of the child:

it is among the “late” children that experts most often state the development of “genetically determined” diseases.

In addition, as statistical reports from numerous studies show, such children are more likely to get sick - their immunity is usually weaker than that of their peers, whose mothers gave birth at the age of 23 to 28 years.. Actually, it is this age interval that is considered by experts to be optimal for the birth of the first child..

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