The dashboard of a Bentley Continental GTC car. A dashboard (also called dash, instrument panel (IP), or fascia) is a control panel located directly ahead of a vehicle's driver, displaying instrumentation and controls for the vehicle's operation.
The mean age at childbearing is the mean age of mothers at the birth of their children if women were subject throughout their lives to the age-specific fertility rates observed in a given year. Method of computation.
Childbearing at advanced maternal age is becoming increasingly common in high income countries. Furthermore, developments in assisted reproductive technologies, including IVF and egg donation, may contribute to an increasing incidence of pregnancies in women outside of the normal reproductive age.