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Originally Posted by ASUADPi
Does anyone else find it super annoying that Hope, at over 40, can just have sex and BOOM she's pregnant, but yet the twenty somethings (Belle & Mimi) CAN'T get pregnant the normal way? I may be no OB-GYN, but knowing what I do know about fertility, that it's easier to get pregnant in your 20's than your 40's. Plus, how much do you want to bet Hope's baby will turn out perfectly normal, when the chances of her having a child with Downs and other birth defects have significantly increased due to her age.
Seriously, I know soaps aren't realistic, but that storyline is just downright stupid.
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While I do think it's silly that so many young people (Mimi, Belle, Carrie) are having trouble conceiving, the individual scenarios aren't totally unrealistic. As in Mimi's case, it's not terribly uncommon for women to become infertile after having an abortion. As for Belle, well Phillip has low sperm motility, which isn't that terribly uncommon either. And then Hope... if you knew my in-laws you'd know that some people are just really fertile. And while the odds of birth defects do go way up after age 35 it definitely isn't impossible for a woman to have a normal child. My mother-in-law was at least 40 when she had her 11th and last child, and he's normal. But I see what you're saying. Many of the Days storylines are just plain dumb.
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