Maternal age
Interview with Maureen Pantall
Date: 24 Jan 1995
From: Birth stories oral history project
By: Pantall, Maureen, 1951-
Reference: OHInt-0084/07
Description: Maureen Pantall was born in Durban in South Africa on 29 June 1951. Outlines her family background including being related to James Watt Stevenson. Gives details of growing up in South Africa on her family's chicken farm where her mother was chief chicken sexer. Describes meeting New Zealander Grant Mitchell and coming to New Zealand with him in 1971. Talks about marriage, studying at university and becoming pregnant. Talks about wanting to avoid interference during the birth, using breathing learnt at ante natal classes and describes the birth as exhausting but positive. Describes two subsequent normal pregnancies, one of which involved induction. Discusses the relationship between birth and early childhood and the rest of a child's life. Talks about a fourth pregnancy, amniocentesis, home birth and being an older mother. Comments on the difficulty of finding fulltime work as an older women with four children. Venue - Wellington : 1995 Interviewer(s) - Claire Loftus Nelson Venue - Eastbourne Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006271; OHC-006272; OHC-006273; OHC-006274 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1432.