This project is about celebrating the strength of women and it is also about challenging misconceptions such as “it’s dangerous to have a child after 40” or “it’s too difficult to be an older mum”. We also want to put the spotlight on women who may have waited to have a child because they were focused on their career in their 20’s and 30’s or women who conceived after a long time of trying to get pregnant or trying treatments such as IVF. We are hoping to develop a series of honest, intimate and raw portraits of mothers with their child.
Sabina
My first pregnancy at 39 was sadly a miscarriage. The statistics are startling, 1 in 4 women will experience a miscarriage, and I think it's something…
Shirley
I got married when I was only 23! My husband was just 22! Skip forward 17 and a half years later and we have 4 wonderful children. I’m glad we got married…
Louise
After having my first baby at the age of 35 and even at that age I was considered a "geriatric pregnancy", I developed postnatal depression due to…
Susan
I'd always wanted to be a mother - and when younger had assumed it would just happen... Time passed, there were relationships (some more serious than others)…
Patricia
My Father died from metastatic malignant melanoma. I found out through his diagnosis that I had malignant melanoma also but mine was not metastatic.
Carolina
I was 41. My partner and I had already two boys at home, but in the back of my mind, I always thought we would have another child.
Lucianne
I met my husband when I was 31 and we spent an amazing 5 years together before getting married. We both knew we absolutely wanted…
Angelica
My husband and I had been trying to have kids for about 7 years. We had tried NAPRO, a 'natural' method of both birth control and conceiving…
Cliodhna
I have wanted children all my life, 5 was my number. I was in a relationship before I was 40, unfortunately, it didn't last, and after my 40th birthday…