Alberta women are waiting to become moms: report

First-time mothers in Alberta are steadily increasing in age, suggests new data from the University of Calgary. Researchers with the School of Public Policy analyzed historical data from all Canadian provinces over 54 years and found first-time moms are getting older, especially here in Alberta. In its report, in 1965 a woman’s average age was 23.5 years, as compared to 29.4 years in 2019, officials said. Since 2012, across every province, the age of mother’s giving birth for the fir