BBC Learning English - 6 Minute English / Too old to have a baby?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Try more episodes of 6 Minute English: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Why are women having babies later in life? What is society's attitude to older parents? Neil and Beth discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary. How old was the oldest ever mum when she gave birth? a) 53 years old? b) 63 years old? or c) 73 years old? Listen to the programme to hear the answer. be in your forties (fifties, sixties etc) the decade, or period of ten years, in your life when you are aged between 40 and 49 phenomena facts or events, especially which are unusual or significant, that exist and can be observed and talked about lingers continues to exist longer than usual or expected to father to make a woman pregnant who then
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