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She thinks we’re too old for children

QI’ve just had my first child at 43 and my husband is 49. We only met a year ago. I thought I would be someone who missed out on children. I’m very grateful and I know I’m very lucky. But my mother-in-law thinks we’re too old to have children and that it’s unfair on the child that we will be in our 60s when they are a teenager. She was 19 when

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