Flower Child, What You Need to Know about Pregnancy

In the summer of 1967 over one hundred thousand young people descended upon San Francisco, Golden Gate Park, and the Haight-Ashbury area to experience a season of love, peace, sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll. The Summer of Love, as this counterculture revolution was called, celebrated with free concerts, performances, protests, and flowers. Cynthia Brian was never a hippie, but she has always been a flower child. Follow her through the garden. What is the ideal age to give birth? Did you know that women who give birth in their late teens develop more health problems than those who wait until their early 30s? The younger a woman is, the younger her eggs are, which means they are less prone to chromosomal mistakes. Researchers know that the younger a woman is when her first baby is born, the lower her lifetime breast cancer risk is, though the exact mechanism is unknown. After forty, fertility is a struggle. Guest Health Hero Heather Brittany shares information on what we need to know.