Oh-this is a great thread!...first for tigger....I am another oldie mum:had my daughter when I was 38...she is now 22. You do the maths-lol.....and it was less common then. It is never too late,hun,.........now to answer the question here. The worst mistake I made was when my sister died-it was after a week of visiting her in hospital back home in NY-she died in the early hoursof the day my hubby and I were coming back to the UK-I was anxious to get back to my daughter who was with her gran here in the UK...she was only 7 at the time and she was missing us. Consequently I had to make the snap descision to come home rather than stay on for possibly another week. That day was the last that I saw my mum......she had a stroke later in the year,and I couldn't get back to the US in time. It is something I will regret for the rest of my life...even tho at the time everyone said I was making the right choice.