BBC presenter Rachel Burden has revealed that she felt selfish for getting pregnant at the age of 41
Founder of the Geriatric Mum Blog Lucy Baker has been left fuming after a BBC broadcaster claimed it is "selfish" for women to have children over the age of 40.
This comes after BBC presenter Rachel Burden has revealed that she felt selfish for getting pregnant at the age of 41.
She explained: "I had my first baby when I was 34 years old, my second when I was 37 and my third at 43. That was the right time for me, it wasn't a selfish move it was a family move.
Host Pip Tomson defended: "Well, to be fair to her, she [the broadcaster] wasn't saying that it is selfish to be an older mum per se.
"It was more about the fact that she was already a mother of three and at the age that she was, wanted to extend her family further into having a fourth child."
Baker said: "I do see where she is coming from, but I think that the word selfish is wrong. The way that women are branded, they can't do anything right these days.
"Through this geriatric mum journey that I've been on, I have met loads of older women and older mums over the years.
"There is never one reason why women have babies later on in life. There are so many different reasons behind the scenes. So to just make a sweeping statement that women are being selfish having babies later I think is wrong."
