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There's an 'Age is not a contraceptive' campaign in the UK.

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O well! What should we call over 40s unplanned Acontraceptive pre-menopausal conceptions and STIs?
Difficulty in deciding the correct terminology does not excuse such wildly inaccurate usage of the language as you employed in referring to 35 year olds as geriatrics!
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now Sailor, l refferred to their pregnancies as Geriatric pregnancies and not the women who chuck their diaphragms (OR whatevers) out the window.
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now Sailor, l refferred to their pregnancies as Geriatric pregnancies and not the women who chuck their diaphragms (OR whatevers) out the window.
Doesn't matter whether it's used as a noun or an adjective - it's just downright inaccurate! What would you think of "should know betters"?
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Halle Berry's pregnancy was considered a geriatric pregnancy. l *knew* l remembered the term.. We should get onto the post-menopausal STIs now. Martha Stewart's cupcake recipes - Telegraph
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Halle Berry's pregnancy was considered a geriatric pregnancy. l *knew* l remembered the term.. We should get onto the post-menopausal STIs now. Martha Stewart's cupcake recipes - Telegraph
Just because somebody else uses a term does not mean we should blindly adopt it - especially when it is clearly non-sensensical. In fact the term "geriatric pregnancy" is, by any normally accepted interpretation, an oxymoron.
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l thought the correct term for mature (PC enough?) pregnancies was actually 'geriatric pregnancy' ? ..just extended the thought into the whole STI area. Irish Family Planning Association | Facebook
Obstetricians call a first-time mother of 35 or over an 'elderly primagravida'.

Around here it's relatively young!
I believe the world record for natural conception is 59...
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here it is, there are so many obstetrical and gynaecological terms that its hard to keep up : Halle Berry's pregnancy is in style, too - USATODAY.com
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l thought the correct term for mature (PC enough?) pregnancies was actually 'geriatric pregnancy' ? ..just extended the thought into the whole STI area. Irish Family Planning Association | Facebook
The correct medical name for a woman over 29, pregnant for the first time, is an elderly primigravida. Guess what sex thought up that one.
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@cryfreedom a boy, one presumes, sounds like an emanation from the sausage factory. oooopsie.
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