Best Age Of Getting Pregnant

According to me , It is not really an age factor, its a maturity factor. As long as you are mature enough to support a child, mentally, physcially and financially, then the age part shouldn't matter.The best years to have a baby are from 17-24, you are more physcially capable to have a baby and a healthy one at that. The older you get the more likely there will be serious health risks associated with the baby and yourself.
"I find that younger mums just go with the flow and are less anxious than older mums. They tend to take to breastfeeding more easily, too.
• "At this age it’s often easier to get pregnant in the first place – you’re in peak physical condition. But one of the problems with very young mums (teens to early 20s) is that they have a higher risk of pre-eclampsia, and no one really knows why. On the plus side, you have boundless energy so the stresses and strains of looking after a baby are that much less."

A baby's smile not only lights up a mother's life - it is also the right tonic that gives her a natural high, a new study has revealed.

Researchers have carried out the study and found that the sight of a smiling infant stimulates the 'feel-good' part of the mother's brain which deals with sensations of reward and pleasure too.

These are the areas that have been activated in other experiments associated with the neurotransmitter dopamine. It may be that seeing your baby's smiling face is like a natural high, lead researcher Lane Strathearn said.

Dopamine is a key chemical messenger in the body, important for motivating, sleeping and controlling movement.

For the study, the researchers put 28 first-time moms of babies, aged between five and ten months, into a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scanner, British newspaper 'The Daily Telegraph' reported.

The participants were then asked to look at pictures of their own and other babies. In some of the pictures, the children were seen smiling and in others they had sad or neutral expressions.

When the mothers looked at the faces, the machine showed the flow of blood in their brains and revealed the regions that were the most active at any time.

As mothers identified their own children, the areas of the brain associated with 'reward' were on alert and the brain chemical dopamine was seen to be active.

In fact, the strength of the reaction depended on the expression of the babies and smiling faces triggered the biggest reaction, while neutral or sad-looking babies provoked the least response.

Crying babies made little difference to the reward centres of the brain -- mothers reacted to their own crying babies in exactly the same way as a stranger's crying child, the study revealed.

According to the researchers at the Texas Children's Hospital, the findings could explain the strong bond between mothers and babies -- and possibly why that bond is sometimes missing.

"The relationship between mothers and infants is crucial for child development and in some cases, that doesn't develop normally. Neglect and abuse can result in devastating effects on a child's development," Dr Strathearn said.

The study has been published in the latest edition of the 'Pediatrics' journal.