Re: Happy birthday, Sn!pe!

[email protected] (Sn!pe) wrote in
news:1qdnzbd.6d46ho1cjy5ayN%[email protected]: 

> Merlyne <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> > I'm a bit glum at the moment.  A couple of weeks ago my youngest
>> > told me that they were expecting a second baby.  It would have been
>> > absolutely lovely but I've just heard that they lost the baby at 12
>> > weeks.  It's a very big disappointment, obviously.  
>> > 
>> > I know that this is really not uncommon;  apparently 1 in 4
>> > pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion.  In fact it happened to
>> > the first Mrs Sn!pe and me before our eldest was born but it's
>> > still a blow for all that.  
>> >   
>> > Ho-hum, life goes on, I'm sure they'll try again.  Mrs S number 1
>> > and I went on to have 4 kids in the end.  
>> >     
>> 
>> That's too bad :(
>> Most people I know wait until after the 12 week mark to annouce for
>> that reason.
>> 
>> How old is your youngest?
>>  
>   
> Not so young anymore, he's 36; I'm not sure how old his lady is.  
> In my book that's rather old to be having children but that seems 
> to be the modern way of going about things.  They had trouble 
> conceiving their first but a couple of rounds of IVF got them there 
> in the end.  The one just lost was unplanned so that at least proves
> that they can conceive naturally.  If another comes it will be a big
> bonus, but que sera, sera.  
>   

Ah. He's my son's age.
I know people that had their first in their 40's. Then you can never 
retire since you have kids in college when you are retirement age.
36 isn't that old IMO.