Do you really believe that? |
You're actually very wrong about that. 35 is an arbitrary age based on a small sample of French data from like 100 years ago. |
I am the breadwinner in my family and my husband has a stable job that allows him to work from home full time. He is on kid duty when I'm at work. He also cooks and cleans. Oh, and the sex is hot, hot, hot. #sorrynotsorry |
As a DC professional, I can’t tell you how many women I’ve known IRL who struggled to have a baby after 35. Tons. |
Look it up, lazybones. |
Had a first baby easily at 40. YMMV. |
"As a DC professional, I can’t tell you how many women I’ve known IRL who struggled to have a baby after 35. Tons."
I've seen the same thing. You just don't realize it because most people don't tell everyone they're doing IVF. I had my only child just before 40 (got pregnant immediately with no help) and almost lost the baby about halfway through the pregnancy. Had to go on bedrest. I'm the granddaughter of a woman who had 10 healthy children, and the daughter of a woman who had four. I'm pretty sure that the odds of having a healthy baby after 35 are much higher if it's not your first, as was the case for my grandmother. Even if you get pregnant easily, you might not make it through the pregnancy with a healthy baby. |
To the PP who easily had a baby at 40:
I went to HSYP from a low-income family and my mom didn't finish high school. That doesn't mean that people from low-income families and parents with little formal education are likely to get into HSYP. SMH. |
My entire group of friends (8 women) had their babies in their late 30s and NONE of them had to use fertility doctors. |
Got pregnant within 2 months of going off BC at 36 and 39. |
First thing that pops up on google: once a woman is over 35, her chances dropped to less than 30 percent chance of conceiving on their most fertile day. |
And he wants someone younger than you. |
You don't have to use a fertility doctor to get a fertility workup and use prescription fertility meds. Your obgyn can handle that. Doesn't mean it didn't take some intervention. It's not something everyone wants to share. |
Sounds like he would be the one to sah. |
DP. I took a look a look and the sources I found either show the top 5%, or they show the top 10% of household income. Given what I found so far it doesn't look like 180k is not within the top 10% in most places. Even if 180k wasn't in the 10% but in the 20%, that would still mean that at least 80% of people do not make that much money. This is exactly what some posters are telling OP. |