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Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Susbad, is nearing the end of her pregnancy and will soon be giving birth to her first child with Prince Harry. Meghan and Harry will be celebrating their first wedding anniversary in just over a month on May 19th. They married in a lavish ceremony at St George's Chapel and will now be celebrating their first year of marriage.
As the royal family expands, Meghan joins the list of royal mothers who gave birth after the age of 35, a technical term used to dictate – as a geriatric mother.
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the average age for women who become mothers for the first time is 28.8 years.
This figure is up, as the results of a 2017 study are higher than those of mothers for the first time in 2016, whose average age was 28.6 years.
The royal family has a long line of women who have chosen to have babies later and, at age 37, Meghan is one of them.
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Queen Elizabeth II gave birth to her youngest son, Prince Edward, at the age of 37.
The queen also violated the royal protocol at birth, as it is said that she had Prince Philip in the room during delivery.
Traditionally, the father was not allowed in the delivery room.
Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, is another royal "geriatric" mother who had her third child and her youngest son, Prince Louis, over 35 years old.
Kate was 36 when Louis was born on April 23, 2018.
Zara Tindall also gave birth, following the footsteps of her grandmother and having her second daughter, Lena, just after her 37th birthday.
Back in the nineteenth century, Queen Victoria had her youngest daughter, Princess Beatrice, in 1857, when she was also 37 years old.
According to the NHS, having a baby later carries risks.
According to the health services, older mothers are more likely to have twins, may take longer to conceive and have an increased risk of birth complications.
However, doctors say that age does not say definitively whether a pregnancy will be healthy or not.
Dr. Sarah Kilpatrick, Director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, told SELF in 2016 that a pregnancy was not suddenly dangerous as soon as a woman had been 36 years old.
She said, "We have learned that there is nothing magical about 35 years old.
"I would never tell anyone that just because she's 35, she needs to see a high-risk doctor – only if there's something in her story or something that justify it during her pregnancy. "
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