Vicki Breitbart & Nan Bauer-Maglin 
Tick Tock [EPUB ebook] 
Essays on Becoming a Parent After 40

Introduction

PART I. Why Did It Take So Long?

• We Can Wait, But Are We Paying Too High a Price? by Salma Abdelnour Gilman


• Out of the Closet and Out of Time by Laura Davis


• OTM (Old, Tired Mommy): Not What I Planned by Linda Wright Moore

PART II. Pregnancy and Birth After 40

• My Road Trip to Fertility by Martine Guay


• Old Mom by Sarah Dougher


• The Terrible Math by Elline Lipkin


• Mourning the Loss of Fertility by Linda Corman


• A Phantasmagoria of Pregnancy and Birth beyond Forty by Julia Henderson


• Giving Birth after Fifty by Phyllis Cox

PART III. Does Age Matter If I Adopt?

• Growing Roots by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser


• “La Llapa”: A Father Again at Forty-Five by Jim Shultz


• States of Mind by Judith Ugelow Blak


• 25% Pure Gold by Barbara Herel


• Too Old for Cartwheels: Reflections from an At-Risk Family by Julie Buckner Armstrong


• From Grief to Joy by Vicki Breitbart


• Twins? Are You Crazy? by Pamela Pitman Brown


• Life in Balance by Laura Broadwell

PART IV. Parenting After Forty

• Never Too Old to Be a Father—Again by Robert Bence


• “Who Is That?” Becoming a Bonus Mom at Age 45 by Paige Averett


• Old Life, New Life, and Parenting in the In-Between by Erik Malewski


• My Grandmother, My Mother, Myself, and My Son by Jean Y. Leung


• His Old Man by Adam Berlin


• If I Don’t Laugh, I’ll Cry by Elizabeth Newman


• What Is Hard? by Catherine Arnst


• Being All the Things by Katherine C. Rand


• Better Late Than Never by Daniel E. Hood


• Two Poems by Elizabeth Acevedo


• Opening Up by Oliver Ardill-Young

PART V. Building Community and Changing the Narrative

• Finding Our Way Together by Sara Elinoff Acker


• The Single, Most Important Community by Alia R. Tyner-Mullings


• Reparation by Susan Ardill


• Late-Onset Motherhood: Many Stories, One Radical Plot Change by Elizabeth Gregory

Acknowledgments

About the Contributors

Notes

Nan Bauer-Maglin worked at City University of New York for almost forty years as a professor and administrator. She is the editor of Cut Loose: (Mostly) Older Women Talk about the End of (Mostly) Long-term Relationships and Widows’ Words: Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between. She is the coeditor of Women and Stepfamilies: Voices of Anger and Love; “Bad Girls/Good Girls”: Women, Sex, and Power in the Nineties; Women Confronting Retirement: A Nontraditional Guide; and Final Acts: Death, Dying and the Choices We Make.