I'm sorry if I didn't explain myself thoroughly, but what I was trying to get at here is that if a woman consciously waits to have a child past 35 because of her personal own issues, whether they are career-oriented, need for travel, etc... then that is WRONG to me. I'm not going to go back and forth - my views on this issue clearly don't agree with a lot of yours, and that is ok. I'm not mad -- this is a debate and discussion, but I'm just not going to go back and forth.
Another thing -- I never said that any woman here or any other woman who decides to have a child over 35 is a bad person, but one might need to deal with the consequences of having a child with issues because you are still posing the risk to that child. Granted, nothing in life/pregnancy/motherhood is guaranteed.
SAO PAULO, Brazil - A woman in northeastern Brazil has given birth to what one doctor called a "giant baby," a boy weighing 16.7 pounds.
Francisca Ramos dos Santos, 38, gave birth to the healthy boy named Ademilton on Tuesday at a hospital in Salvador, 900 miles northeast of Sao Paulo. He was the largest baby born at the Albert Sabin Maternity Hospital in its 12-year history, the hospital said.
"Obviously the baby was born by Caesarean section," hospital director Rita Leal said. "Both mother and baby are doing just fine."
Ademilton "could truly be considered a giant baby, for he was born weighing what a six-month-old-baby normally weighs," pediatrician Luiz Sena Azul told the Correio da Bahia newspaper.
Santos has four other children — ages 9, 12, 14, and 15 — who were born weighing between 7.7 pounds and 11 pounds.
"She knew Ademilton would be a big baby, but not this big" Leal said. "She, her husband and the hospital staff were caught by surprise."
The average weight for newborns in Brazil is 7.7 pounds for boys and 6.6 pounds for