For an extremely busy career mother like me, who has not hit jackpot in her career yet, telling me to get baby number three is a crisis. What even encourages me to delay this third child-bearing is the fact that being an older mother has been shown to come with benefits. According to a study in the International Journal of Epidemiology children born from an older mother arebrighter. But with new study had more encouraging news, the children born to the 35- to 39-year-olds did significantly better on the cognitive testing than the children born to younger mothers. A study in Denmark by The European Journal of Developmental Psychology shows that children born of older mothers are taller and smarter.

Source: Standard Digital September 17, 2017 08:37 UTC