Stop Judging Women for Having Children Later in Life

Lindsey (Lazarte) Carson
5 min readMar 5, 2019
Photo by Guillaume de Germain on Unsplash

A few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a co-worker where I mentioned one of my former co-workers who had been pregnant in her forties when she ran a marathon. The feat of running a marathon aside, he replied in shock, “Pregnant? And she was in her forties?”

Slightly taken back by the blatant reaction, I calmingly replied, “Yeah”, and continued on with the conversation…

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Lindsey (Lazarte) Carson

Writer, Runner, Mother. I write about work, relationships, culture, and life in general.