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Article: PREGNANCY SAFER NOW IN 30S AND EVEN 40S.(Savvy)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- August 17, 2000
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In a way, Karen Walloch of Madison views her daughter as having brought a ``late spring'' into her life.
``After all, I was 46 this year when she was born on June 8 at Meriter Hospital,'' Walloch says.
So it's not surprising that Walloch -- and her husband, Tim Bates -- named their daughter, Persephone.
In Greek mythology, Persephone is kidnapped by the king of the underworld, and when her mother -- Demeter, goddess of earth and harvest -- went looking for her daughter, the Earth fell into perpetual winter.
As the story goes, if you eat anything in the underworld, you have to stay. But since Persephone had eaten only six pomegranate ...