Here, five Irish women share their stories of the joys and challenges of pregnancy and motherhood after 40. ‘I knew if I didn’t try, I would have regrets’Kerry White became a mother at 49Kerry White and her daughter Freya (6). She didn’t presume it would work, “but I knew if I didn’t try, I would have regrets”. She tries not to obsess about the fact that she’s an older mother. My mum was a little bit older having us – she was in her 30s when she had her first, her last in her 40s.

Source: The Irish Times January 25, 2026 01:32 UTC