Sep 3, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min · 12 segments
Clare and Jack are joined in this episode by Dr Andrea Murphy. Andrea has over a decades worth of experience in supporting women through all stages of hormonal change including postpartum in women…
That's a really significant percentage.
I wasn't imagining it would be so high.
And I wonder what are your thoughts on the terminology geriatric pregnancy? I don't love it.
And I just want to say something about my personal experience when it comes to geriatric and that term being thrown around.
When I was going in for my prenatal care and even into my postnatal care, I look quite young.
And so the words and the expression geriatric pregnancy was never mentioned to me.
And then when I was going through my postnatal care and I was describing these feelings of, you know, postnatal anxiety and all of these other challenges that I started to face around the six month mark in my head, I was like, is this perimenopause? And when I discussed it with my doctors, they were like, no way, no way that could, that's not you at all.
And then the further and further I got with it and the more that I dug into it, I was like, oh no, this is the early perimenopause.
And I was probably already in early perimenopause when I conceived my daughter.
But because visually I look the way I look, it was just never something that my doctors grabbed onto.
And it was really something that I had to push to get anyone to listen to me about.
And I wonder how many women maybe experienced something similarly and how that term geriatric pregnancy is just the wrong kind of descriptive term here.
I think there's too much nuance and too much variability between women for that to be applied to everyone.
Yeah, and I wonder how much that term is just something that is kept internally in the mind of the obstetrician or the midwives or the mainstream care providers and whether that's just a lens that they filter things through.
I think I only heard the term once.
across both of my pregnancies.
And I was 36 when my daughter was born and I was 40, a month away from turning 40 when my son was born.
That's a really significant percentage.
I wasn't imagining it would be so high.
And I wonder what are your thoughts on the terminology geriatric pregnancy? I don't love it.
And I just want to say something about my personal experience when it comes to geriatric and that term being thrown around.
When I was going in for my prenatal care and even into my postnatal care, I look quite young.
And so the words and the expression geriatric pregnancy was never mentioned to me.
And then when I was going through my postnatal care and I was describing these feelings of, you know, postnatal anxiety and all of these other challenges that I started to face around the six month mark in my head, I was like, is this perimenopause? And when I discussed it with my doctors, they were like, no way, no way that could, that's not you at all.
And then the further and further I got with it and the more that I dug into it, I was like, oh no, this is the early perimenopause.
And I was probably already in early perimenopause when I conceived my daughter.
But because visually I look the way I look, it was just never something that my doctors grabbed onto.
And it was really something that I had to push to get anyone to listen to me about.
And I wonder how many women maybe experienced something similarly and how that term geriatric pregnancy is just the wrong kind of descriptive term here.
I think there's too much nuance and too much variability between women for that to be applied to everyone.
Yeah, and I wonder how much that term is just something that is kept internally in the mind of the obstetrician or the midwives or the mainstream care providers and whether that's just a lens that they filter things through.
I think I only heard the term once.
across both of my pregnancies.
And I was 36 when my daughter was born and I was 40, a month away from turning 40 when my son was born.
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