{"id":352126,"date":"2026-03-18T06:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T06:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/352126\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T06:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T06:25:08","slug":"my-surprise-pregnancy-at-45-when-i-told-my-mam-she-was-going-to-be-a-granny-again-she-told-me-i-was-having-a-change-of-life-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/352126\/","title":{"rendered":"My surprise pregnancy at 45: \u2018When I told my mam she was going to be a granny again, she told me I was having a change-of-life baby\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nWhen Davina Taylor realised she was carrying her third child in her mid-forties, she was concerned about the higher risk of complications \u2013 but she ended up sailing through the pregnancy, and her surprise baby changed her life perspective in a positive way\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Davina Taylor and her son Max (8). Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/M Davina Taylor 002.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Davina Taylor and her son Max (8). Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s no secret that the women of Ireland are waiting much longer to embark on the journey of motherhood for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Recent data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) shows the average age of motherhood in Ireland is 33.2, while births from women aged 45 and over jumped by 80.5pc between 2013 and 2023 (rising from 226 in 2013 to 408 in 2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Davina Taylor realised she was carrying her third child in her mid-forties, she was concerned about the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[150556,103,61,60],"class_list":["post-352126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-filomena-kaguako","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}