A mum 'judged' for having a baby at 43 says she sympathises with Stacey Solomon - who has been criticised after announcing her latest pregnancy.
Lucy Baker, now 46, had her third child three years ago but throughout her pregnancy, she received unwarranted comments about her age. Lucy said she relates to Stacey, who received some nasty comments after revealing her latest pregnancy aged 33.
The mum of three said: "I think as soon as women announce their pregnancies somebody goes out of their way to make a comment. I was scrolling through Stacey Solomon's pregnancy announcements and people were saying she was too old.
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"I sympathise with her. She must read some of them and it must sting. People don't know what she's been through, she might be feeling vulnerable."
Lucy fell pregnant with her third child, Rocky, three, when she was 42. She says it wasn't a complete surprise but she and her partner, Dan, 39, a production manager, were delighted.
Lucy had her first child, Nancy, 12, when she was 34 and her second child, Ivy, 10, when she turned 37. She claims she found her final pregnancy the easiest - despite internet horror stories about the hardship of older motherhood.
However, Lucy says throughout her textbook pregnancy people would comment on her age - with one mum saying: "You're going to be 47 when he starts school."
Lucy added: "Some people said, 'Aren't you too tired for this?'. Others said, 'I thought you had given up nappies'.
"People made the assumption I would be crawling around knackered. It was a perfect pregnancy - I loved it. So many people asked me if it was planned. I remember booking a holiday with a travel agent and she asked if it was planned.
"For the first time, I grew my courage, kicked back and said, 'I'm not going to answer that question.' I would never say that to somebody - you never know what's going on behind closed doors.
"Women could have struggled for years with their fertility and suffered miscarriages - you just don't know what someone has been through."
Sick of the unwanted comments, Lucy took to Facebook and created a group 'We are geriatric mums'. She said: "People flocked to join it it, at one point there was 3,000 members. People found friends and shared their darkest and best times.
"It was so positive and, as the host, I got a lot out of it myself."
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