Poll: Mother's Age affecting Daughter's Fertility

Assembly_Reqd · May 2012

I have been wondering this for a while. Has anyone ever come across any information stating the age your mother was when you were conceived possibly could have afffected your own fertility?

If girls are already born with all the 'eggs' we will ever produce, wouldn't their mother's reproductive health affect the reproductive area and quality of the genetic information in those eggs?

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I think I am gonna do another poll for MFI too. Just for giggles....

Imanurse03 · May 2012

Eh, not sure I buy into that. My mom was 25 when she had me and 27 when she had my younger sister. My younger sister has had no IF issues and I have. My sister has been lucky enough to get pg the 1st month of trying two times now.

leneae10 · May 2012

My mom was barely 18. No woman in my family has struggled with IF.

esperanza123 · May 2012

My Mom had me at 23. I had DD at 36. Our DX is MFI but I'm sure my age didn't/doesn't help which has nothing to do with my Mom.

queenbone · May 2012

My mom was 23 when she had me and 25 when she had my sister. She was using an IUD when she conceived each of us. Yeah, IUDs weren't that good in the 70s!

So this theory doesn't apply to me at all. They were super fertile and I am super not. I was 30 when I first started ttc, so it isn't entirely apples to apples though.

njohnson1972 · May 2012

As an AMA with DOR, I will never know if I had tried conceiving in my 20's if I would have suffered IF. There are too many unknown variables. My sisters had children no problems in their 20's. We have no idea if they would have had troubles conceiving in their 30's.

Quizzle · May 2012

My mom had me at 27 and I had DD at 37. We had MFI mostly although I was PCOish and a late ovulator. I also had a small septum, but that's got nothing to do with my mom's age and is just random chance.

etoyama · May 2012

My mom had an accidental pregnancy at 19 and gave the baby up for adoption. I was another "oops" pregnancy, though she and my father were engaged. Then she and my dad had a planned pregnancy - my brother, when they were both 27. She once said that all they had to do was drink from the same cup and BAM she was knocked up >:(

Ali212 · May 2012

My mother was young when she had me (or young in my opinion), at 24. BUT, she also had numerous miscarriages (one before and the rest after I was born) and a stillbirth.

interzone · May 2012

I absolutely think certain infertility issues can be inherited!

My mother had me when she was 24, but had fertility problems and had to use clomid. When I was diagnosed with PCOS I told her about it and my symptoms, and she realized that was probably her issue as well, that just wasn't what her doctors called it in the late 1970's. She also told me that her grandmother was married for 6 years before her first child was born and thought she would never be able to have kids. I guess it runs in my family and I will certainly talk to my daughter about it so she doesn't get the same unhappy surprise if she wants kids.

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