I tried really hard during this show to put aside my thoughts about the actual age of the women featured in this Channel 4 documentary – all of whom wanted desperately to be mothers, or already were – but it wasn’t that easy.

I had a constant running battle going on in my head about the whole thing; one part of my psyche was screaming “Nature didn’t intend a 70 year old to be a mother – that’s why we have menopause!” while another part was arguing, “Yes, but if nature had its way and medical intervention wasn’t on the cards, anyone with appendicitis would die.”

No, I’m not schizophrenic or anything and don’t normally have opposing voices arguing in my head, but whilst my debacle over nature versus science raged on, the arguments over the suitability of a pensioner to raise a baby were overwhelmingly on the side of the “it’s not right” brigade… Read more & comment »