By Ben Spencer Medical Correspondent For The Daily Mail
Published: 23:30 GMT, 20 March 2019 | Updated: 23:30 GMT, 20 March 2019
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The risk of suffering a miscarriage soars for older mothers, a study suggests.
The number of older mothers has increased in recent decades, as more women concentrate on their career first and turn to family later.
Women now have their first child five years later on average than they did four decades ago.
It means there are now more births to over-40s than to teenagers in the UK.
But researchers warn that this could be having an impact on complications and miscarriages.
The risk of suffering a miscarriage soars for older mothers, a study suggests, amid a rise in women having children over the age of 45
Miscarriage affects one in eight pregnancies - usually occurring before 12 weeks of pregnancy.
A study published in the British Medical Journal found miscarriage rates are lowest among women aged 25 to 29, at 10 per cent.
Women are safe to have a pregnancy soon after a stillbirth without tragic outcomes, research found last month.
Some studies have suggested to wait a year or more following a stillbirth to avoid further complications or the heartbreak of enduring another.
The findings, published in the Lancet, are reassuring for women who are in fear they will have a premature birth or stillborn again.
There are more than 3,200 stillbirths every year in the UK, and one in every 225 births ends in a stillbirth.
Researchers at Curtin University, Australia found
