According to a study that is quoted at www.lifescript.com, a first time father's age has a correlation to the health outcome of his baby, if the man is over 40 years old.

According to research published in a recent issue of the journal Epidemiology, babies born to middle-aged dads are more likely to experience weakened health than babies born to men in their 20s. Danish researchers looked at data from more than 70,000 live births between 1980 and 1996. Their results indicated that first-time fathers between 45-49 years of age were more likely to have infants who suffered from weakened heart rate and respiration, poor reflexes, and... more

I was reading an old post today in the blog DI Dad. He is the father to two children that were conceived using a donor. His site brought my attention to the post that I wrote yesterday. As I was catching up with my reading, which in this case, I decided to go from current to past posts, I read about a question that he posted to his readers. Here goes:

Terminology request: I am getting tired of writing "the mom of my kids' half sibling". Is there an anacronym (misp?) out there that has ben created for this purpose already? I don't want to use her real name and making up a pseudonym seems funny as readers will say "who is that?". Amazing how science also affects... more

I decided this week to devote a little bit of time to dads and dads-to-be. I thought that I would do some blog reading on infertility from the male perspective. I couldn't find one during the small amount of searching that I did. I did find a really interesting article from a dad who suffered with his wife through their infertility woes and then go on to have a daughter and then some!

"Life to Music" by Mark Stackpole www.DadsToday.com

Anyway, I'm laughing my you know what off after reading this piece. He talks about his... more