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For example, store 20 eggs if you hope to become pregnant at Pregnant women past the age of 35 have an increased risk of pregnancy complications, including gestational diabetes, preeclampsia high blood pressure and intrauterine growth restriction causing premature delivery. They are also more likely to have a C-section, because older uteruses often do not contract as well as needed for vaginal delivery. Women choosing to become pregnant through fertility techniques are more likely to become pregnant with twins, sometimes triplets.
There are also greater risks to an older mom after the child is born, including postpartum hemorrhage or excessive bleeding. Babies born to older moms are also more likely to develop chromosomal problems, including Down Syndrome. That means mom might have more time for baby. A mom with more financial stability might be able to provide more for her child, like a new car or college education. At this age, mom is also more likely to have found her life partner. So, a more stable sense of family could exist.
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I put off telling my parents about the split for weeks, hesitant to disappoint them. When I finally broke the news, they were, to my relief, supportive and understanding. I know you want to have kids. Within corporate America, 42 percent of the professional women interviewed by Hewlett had no children at age 40, and most said they deeply regretted it. Just as you plan for a corner office, Hewlett advised her readers, you should plan for grandchildren. Female fertility, the group announced, begins to decline at I had always wanted children.
I frequently passed the time in airports by chatting up frazzled mothers and babbling toddlers—a 2-year-old, quite to my surprise, once crawled into my lap. But, suddenly single at 30, I seemed destined to remain childless until at least my mids, and perhaps always. It upset me so much that I began doubting my divorce for the first time. If at all. I was lucky: within a few years, I married again, and this time the match was much better.
But my new husband and I seemed to face frightening odds against having children. Most books and Web sites I read said that one in three women ages 35 to 39 would not get pregnant within a year of starting to try.
Every time I read these statistics, my stomach dropped like a stone, heavy and foreboding. Had I already missed my chance to be a mother? The widely cited statistic that one in three women ages 35 to 39 will not be pregnant after a year of trying, for instance, is based on an article published in in the journal Human Reproduction. Rarely mentioned is the source of the data: French birth records from to The chance of remaining childless—30 percent—was also calculated based on historical populations.
In other words, millions of women are being told when to get pregnant based on statistics from a time before electricity, antibiotics, or fertility treatment. Most people assume these numbers are based on large, well-conducted studies of modern women, but they are not.
Surprisingly few well-designed studies of female age and natural fertility include women born in the 20th century—but those that do tend to paint a more optimistic picture. It found that with sex at least twice a week, 82 percent of toyear-old women conceive within a year, compared with 86 percent of toyear-olds.
The fertility of women in their late 20s and early 30s was almost identical—news in and of itself. Another study, released this March in Fertility and Sterility and led by Kenneth Rothman of Boston University, followed 2, Danish women as they tried to get pregnant.
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