unplanned pregnancy help: This is a life or death issue. - Help.com

DO NOT get rid of it, if you are pregnant then that is that, you are 40 not dead, people leave babies untill later in life these days, you are only 40.
If you are pregnant then it is yours and your husbands responsibility, if he doesn’t want more kids then he could have gone for the OP but he didn’t.

For him to say that is quite disgusting to be honest.

If YOU want a baby; have the baby.

I don’t have any experience or wisdom to offer I’m afraid but I do agree with LazyDaze on this.
While I am not against abortion, I agree that if your husband definately did not want anymore children then he should have had the OP.
If you have always wanted more children then this should be seen as a great “mistake.” Your husband can’t make you get rid of your baby.
You accepted that he did not want more than two children, now he has to accept that you are going to have this baby. (If you understand my logic there?! Lol)

Good luck,
Jamiee -x-

There are two other factors: your health and the health of the baby. It is riskier for older women* to have children, so talk to your doctor about the risks to your health. Second, children born to older women have a much higher chance of birth defects, especially Down Syndrome (this seems to be true for the children of older men as well). Fortunately, testing for Down Syndrome and other defects can be done fairly early in the pregnancy, allowing time to make decisions.

As far as your husband is concerned, he should be open to your wishes as well as you being open to his. He doesn’t seem to be taking your wishes into consideration.

*I’m 48, and I like women who are my own age, so don’t take “older women” as a slight; it isn’t meant that way.

Single mom is not the end of the world. And who knows? By the time the baby is born he just may wake up and smell the baby powder and realize that this is a blessing.

As bad as having your marriage end would be, it would be far worse to abort the baby against your wishes. If you did, you would be torn in half and would probably never heal.

He’s being an a-hole…If he truly loved you he would respect your wishes. Its unfair and selfish of him. You might never know why God would want you to have another child after all this time.