Flick through the pages of the latest glossy magazine and you're likely to come across at least one female celebrity who has started a family aged 40 plus. Singer Gwen Stefani and actress Susan Sarandon had children in their mid-forties, pop icon Janet Jackson had her first child at 50, and Dame Julia Peyton-Jones announced last year that she had become a mother for the first time at 64. The number of women having healthy babies later in life is on the rise, but conceiving in your forties is by no means a certainty and many women hoping to start a family mid-life will miss out.
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