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When the actress Rachel Weisz recently revealed she is expecting a baby at the age of 48, she was the latest to join the fast-growing demographic of mothers over the age of 40. In 2015, the fertility rate of women aged 40 and above surpassed that of women aged under 20 for the first time since 1947, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.
It is something that early years practitioners are noticing in their settings.
‘We have definitely seen an increase in the number of older mums,’ says Jo Morris, manager of Playsteps Day Nursery in Swindon.
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