Britain faces Fertility Timebomb
"30 year old women might feel healthy, not smoke and have a good diet, but that doesn't mean their ovaries are working properly."
Cheers. Thanks for that. Just what you want to hear on Radio 4 as you're dropping off to sleep. As if listening to radio 4 at night time wasn't enough to make me feel old, now it's telling me that come 30 my child bearing days are all but over.
A nice little sound-bite for all of those circa-30-ladies who nearly dared to feel happy about who they are and their place in the world. Just as you're about to congratulate yourself for having a successful relationship, good job, nice home you're told that inside you're as shrivelled and baron as a mouldy old prune.
Well, that's just effing marvellous isn't it.
And anyway, I don't get it - one minute we're being told that teenage girls are getting knocked up left, right and centre thanks to poor sex education and the wonder of the alcopop; won't their thousands of illegitimate offspring be enough to propogate the species? Plus, according to the media, Britain has got so many people setting up home from overseas that there simply isn't enough room to accommodate everyone anyway.
Surely these people are only doing their bit to make sure Britain doesn't become a desolate island in years to come because a generation of 30 year old women left it 6 months too late to plan their families.
And on that note I'm going to try and get to sleep and assure myself that I'm not old, I am healthy and I haven't got innards that look like a pickled goat.
If only I could be bothered to get out of bed and turn the radio off.
Good night Birmingham.
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Emma Deadman - is a first-time mum-to-be. She gives her take on life... from bump to beyond.
Completely agree. I'm 24, in a healthy relationship and working my way up the career ladder. I actually thought the other day: I've never been as happy as I am now (cheesy I know). But all this Daily Mail rubbish about a fertility time bomb is enough to make even me worry about whether I have enough time to have children if and when I want them. And I don't even want them for a good five years anyway!