From the site:
Pregnancy Stories By Age: "Who says your eggs are too old?
It's not hard to understand the fears surrounding conception. Yes, the statistics show that a woman's fertility declines as she ages, but you must keep in mind that these numbers may have nothing to do with you.-Christiane Northrup, M.D., Health Wisdom
In fact, over the last 20 years, births to women over age 40 have increased by 50%.... And in 1991, 92,000 women in the U.S. over age 40 had babies. That number continues to rise. A lot of forty-something women don't realize how fertile they are, which may account for the fact that they are second only to women ages 18-25 in frequency of abortions.
Who says your eggs are too old? Furthermore, you should know that the vast majority of babies born to women in their forties are healthy. And in healthy women, the vast majority of pregnancies are completed without a hitch.
5 comments:
I'm sure a lot of that had soemthing to do with the increase of ART over the past few years too.
Could be, Carla! But at least the most recent stories on this site were oe mid forty-type women, many of whom got pregnant naturally and accidentally :)
Off topic...Marie are you working on a new novel?
My grandmother did get pregnant at age 46 over 35 years ago. Though I would like to think of that as more common, I don't want to get my hopes up to high--my mother went though menopause starting at age 40; and at age 28, I almost have NO fertility due to PCOS despite my diet, activity, being fit, herbs, etc. I think its individual rather than age.
Hi Elise--
yes, I'm working on a novel about a doctor--so i've been running around the HOSPITAL. That's why we're not ttc for a few months...ugh, I'm so chemically sensitive (I feel like such a wuss) a day on the floor just knocks me out...
xo,
ml
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