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"Most of the books on menopause assume a woman is done with the heavy lifting of childrearing, that her kids are about to move out of the house and go off to college, and that she can focus more of her energies on herself. It&amp;#039;s just not the case with me, as I had my first and only child when I was almost 42. And I&amp;#039;m far from alone in being a mother of a certain age. In the UK, the number of women over 40 giving birth has tripled in the past twenty years and has risen 6% last year alone, according to their Office of National Statistics. Here in the US, the number of women of &amp;quot;advanced maternal age&amp;quot; becoming mothers is also on the rise: it increased 4% among women 40-44 last year (the highest number of births in this age group since 1967) and even inched up a tenth of percent (.7%) for women 45-49. So it seems only fitting there should be new books on the subject of perimenopause and childrearing. Here are a few suggestions for what I&amp;#039;d like to see on the bookshelves. Feel free to send in your recommendations too, reader. What do you think is missing from the menopausal literature? 1.The Perimenopausal Parent: a handbook for all those moms on how to raise a (relatively) healthy child while suffering from mood swings, insomnia, crying jags, and periods of forgetfulness. Alternately titled, &amp;quot;Mommy, Did You Forget to Pack My Lunch Again?&amp;quot; 2.What Your Doctor Won&amp;#039;t Tell You About Late Motherhood and Menopause: For older moms who wondered if it were possible to be having night sweats while still breastfeeding. It is. With a chapter entitled, &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;ll never sleep through the night again.&amp;quot; 3.Two Plus Two Equals Go Ask Your Father: A survival guide for the elementary school years \u2013 for you, not your child. Includes chapters on chairing PTAs and the ABCs of hot flashes, and one on the perimenopausal politics of room parenting. Do you think any of these have a shot at being bestsellers?? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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