article in The Atlantic

oooCarrieB

Anyone read this article?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/how-long-can-you-wait-to-have-a-baby/309374/

 It seems like that author says that basically your fertility doesn't change much from your 20s to your 30s, you should just time your trying to the 2 days before O. She goes on to say this unless of course you have blocked tubes, or endo or your DH has MFI.

She doesn't even mention DOR. I guess I'll go back in time and stop worrying when I was 31 and hadn't gotten pregnant after 3 years of trying because my fertility was probably just fine. Maybe we just weren't timing it well...

IBackBevo

This is the same article that I got into a debate with someone on facebook about and where one poster told me that, "My mom got pregnant with me at 45 naturally -the way God intended it."  It is replete with misrepresentations--and, unfortunately, misrepresentations about so-called "facts" that women rely on when making life decisions like delaying children.  It is virtually undisputed in legitimate medical science that fertility declines in your 30's (especially in your mid-30's) even in normal women.  I saw something just yesterday or the day before that at peak fertility (i.e. early to mid 20's), about 15% of a woman's eggs were chromosomally abnormal.  By 40, this was about 50%.  This article completely ignores that, too. Not to mention the fact that after 35, a woman is considered AMA and at higher risk for gestational diabetes, pre-e, and other pregnancy complications.  It also ignores the fact that even in normal women (without fertility problems) that live birth rates drop off the cliff at about 44-45.  The live birth rate for over 44 (stats from the CDC) is 0.03 percent. That is 3 out of 10,000.  And 1 out of every 9 of these births is a child with a chromosomal abnormality. 

 

 

    

Saraevh

I read this last week.  And then I rolled my eyes  

IBackBevo

Here is an RE's response:

https://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10860787.htm?PID=6147022

He called the article irresponsible and said: ?This report does a disservice to women who have a desire to start family, and for whom time is the greatest enemy, from a medical and statistical standpoint. By suggesting a degree of complacency that could result in women delaying treatment of infertility, and could be to their detriment, it is both misleading and dangerous.?