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Article: How Long Can You Wait to Have a Baby?
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How Long Can You Wait to Have a Baby?
Deep anxiety about the ability to have children later in life plagues many women. But the decline in fertility over the course of a woman?s 30s has been oversold. Here?s what the statistics really tell us?and what they don?t.
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I really like this point
Another problem looms even larger: women who are actively trying to get pregnant at age 35 or later might be less fertile than the average over-35 woman. Some highly fertile women will get pregnant accidentally when they are younger, and others will get pregnant quickly whenever they try, completing their families at a younger age. Those who are left are, disproportionately, the less fertile. Thus, ?the observed lower fertility rates among older women presumably overestimate the effect of biological aging,?
Elizabeth 5yrs old Jane 3yrs old
I really enjoyed this article. There is just no one definitive when it comes to getting pregnant, which I especially appreciate after an unexpected pregnancy (I thought I was infertile).
Anyway, this article reminded me of this great TED talk with Meg Jay: Why 30 is Not the New 20.
https://www.ted.com/talks/meg_jay_why_30_is_not_the_new_20.html