Challenges for the legislation enabling egg donation in Switzerland.

Switzerland is one of the most restrictive countries in Europe when it comes to the regulation of egg donation in medically assisted reproduction (MAR). Indeed, even after the introduction of modifications to the law regulating reproductive medicine allowing embryo culture, embryo freezing, and preimplantation genetic testing, egg donation has remained completely forbidden. The absolute ban on egg donation is heavily discussed in academia, society, and politics.

Building a family at advanced parental age: a systematic review on the risks and opportunities for parents and their offspring.

Study Question: What is the existing empirical literature on the psychosocial health and wellbeing of the parents and offspring born at an advanced parental age (APA), defined as 40 years onwards?

Summary Answer: Although the studies show discrepancies in defining who is an APA parent and an imbalance in the empirical evidence for offspring, mothers, and fathers, there is a drive towards finding psychotic disorders and (neuro-)developmental disorders among the offspring; overall, the observed advantages and disadvantages are difficult to compare.

What Is Known Already: In many societies, children are born to parents at advanced ages and there is rising attention in the literature towards the consequences of this trend.

Study Design Size Duration: The systematic search was conducted in six electronic databases (PubMed including Medline, Embase, Scopus, PsycInfo, CINAHL, and SocINDEX) and was limited to papers published between 2000 and 2021 and to English-language articles.

"It was not an accident": Women's experiences of renewing motherhood at 40.

In recent decades, there has been an increase in motherhood at an advanced age that has raised several medical and social concerns. We conducted a qualitative interview study, guided by Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, to focus on the motivations and experiences of Belgian women who 'renewed' their motherhood later in life, meaning they had one or several children and then (at least 10 years later) had another child at the age of 40 or older. We focused on ten women's experiences of motherhood later in life, as well as on the way they managed social norms and expectations regarding family building and the appropriate life course.