“Geriatric pregnancy” is such a dumb term…

The debate over the medical terms used for pregnancies later in life, such as "geriatric pregnancy" and "advanced maternal age". The speaker finds the first term unhelpful and says the second is only slightly better, while agreeing that medicine still needs some way to describe this group of patients.

• Criticism of the term "geriatric pregnancy"
• Views on "advanced maternal age" as an alternative
• Why a clinical label for this group is still needed

“Advanced maternal age” isn’t much better, but we do need some term to describe this group of people medically 🤰🏼