Harsh words but perhaps predictable from someone whose business is lactation.
Certainly medical practitioners note the risks involved in birthing - both for mother and baby - increase with a mother's age. Have your first baby at over 35 years and you will be classified medically geriatric-primagravida. But as University of Otago sociologist Bryndl Hohmann-Marriott says these risks are better managed today.
There are other advantages to being an older mother. Mrs Stewart in our story says she has her "head screwed on a bit straighter than if I was a bit younger" and her finances sorted.
Anecdotal assumptions about the older mother being a more prepared mother is borne out by research. Professor Elizabeth Gregory of the University of Houston who has researched the trend for mothers over 35, found that they were more financially secure, more confident, ready to focus on family and more ready to take a break in their career than younger mothers.
While this is good news for our Hollywood mothers, and Bay mums such as Mrs Stewart, there is also something concerning about the fact that social and career pressure may mean women fear taking a break in their careers early on, when their fertility is at its peak in their 20s. They would rather, it seems, gamble on their fertility than risk slipping a rung in the career ladder.
It is not their fault. Despite the many advances of women in the workplace, the simple fact that women take and need a break to have one or more children, means that they are never on an equal footing with men.
This week, New Zealand businesswoman and rich lister Diane Foreman criticised the old boy network in New Zealand, commenting on a recent report by Harvard Business School, which noted that the percentage of women directors on boards in New Zealand was 7.5 per cent, half the global average of 16 per cent.
Foreman said more needed to be done by both the Government and the private sector.
It is not just on boards where women still are knocking their heads against the ceiling. Parental leave and flexible working for women are set to become a hot potato in this year's election.
While most would agree it is desirable for a woman to be able to take adequate time out to have a baby, the opposers argue it is too expensive.
Yet it could be affordable to extend paid parental leave from 14 weeks to 26 weeks.
The Government is still paying huge childcare subsidies to early childhood education providers who get funded by the Ministry of Education per child.
So we have the irony of a government funding a four-month-old baby to be in care while mum has to return to work. If this funding was redirected, extending paid parental leave could be a reality.
While there are challenges to grapple with, such as how New Zealand's landscape of smaller businesses would cope with this, they are challenges we must face to bring New Zealand in line with other countries.
It would certainly be a preferable spend to blanket handouts to families like the sort Labour Leader David Cunliffe has proposed.
It would also mean that if women did not want to delay having children, they need not put their careers, or their eggs on ice.
