First Mothering Over 35 Years: Questioning the Association of Maternal Age and Pregnancy Risk
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Women having a first baby at 35+ years are commonly considered to be "at risk" for pregnancy complications. This understanding appears to be based primarily on age, and curerntly many healthy women are included in this category. There is clear evidence to suggest that, for these women, being considered "at risk" is anxiety provoking. In this Australian qualitative study of first mothering over 35 years, we found four risk-related themes, "realizing I was at risk," "hoping for reassurance," "dealing with uncertainty," and "getting through it/negotiating risk." We concluded that successful adjustment to motherhood related principally to participants negotiating risk and also to the infant growing and becoming more responsive. Attitudes of health professionals were found to contribute to rather than ameliorate participant dilemmas. Understanding how healthy women over 35 years engage with and negotiate notions of risk may assist health professionals in the provision of more meaningful maternal support for this growing group of women.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".