Famous Hong Kong actress pregnant at 43

The usual morning ritual - Nespresso coffee, waiting for Outlook to load all the fresh emails, a quick flick through the Standard before tackling the Sudoku when my eye caught this little blurb: Mum on soon becoming a dad

Curious English aside, what surprised me was that Carina Lau (wife of Hong Kong's superstar Tony Leung, seen in films like Lust, Caution and Infernal Affairs) is pregnant at 43 years old, thanks to the well-known gynecologist-obstetrician Clement Ho who spearheads the clinic that I go to.

While I am aware that recent societal pressures have now made couples (who can conceive naturally) decide to get pregnant and bear children much later in life, I don't fully agree with this trend. It bothers me because I know there are people who are not able to conceive on their own and when they see a fertility specialist, they face a long waiting list for the first visit to the doctor, expensive consultation fees (no doubt driven up by affluent couples who waited too long to have kids and realized that at 45 they have no other option other than to see an obgyn doctor), and the excruciating postponement to receive donated eggs. It just doesn't seem fair to them, yes?

So the moral of the story is, if you can get preggers when you are 28, do it now! Don't clog the system and deprive the couples who truly need medical assistance to have a child.

Carina Lau and Tony Leung - congratulations to the both of you but I certainly hope this wouldn't encourage more people to have children later in life and expect doctors to perform miracles.