Rachel Weisz pregnant @ 48

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I appreciate when celebrities are honest about their fertility circumstances, but it really isn’t any of our business.

I actually would not be surprised if this were a natural pregnancy. Do you really think she would have tried for 8 years with treatments...or put off trying, if they wanted kids together?

How do you know they didn't try naturally for the past 8 years and then turned to donor eggs? I have a friend who did this--got married at 40, tried naturally from age 40 to 44, including several "natural cycle" IVF cycles. Started the donor egg process at 45 and finally conceived at 46ish.

The thing is, you just don't know what happened.

Maybe she never thought she wanted another kid and then recently held a newborn and thought, "wow, I really want another kid" and decided to go for it and went straight to donor egg.
Who knows.

I work in a fertility clinic. It makes me a bit squeamish when people recount all the tales of "natural pregnancies at age 48 or 49. Sure, these conceptions happen but they're exceedingly rare. The vast majority of women will have difficulty conceiving at any time past the very early 40s. Many will see a marked decline in
fertility past age 39 or 40. Many will never have success in conceiving a baby. We see SO many women who have no idea that they won't be able to conceive at 41 or 42 or 43 (let alone 45+). They believe that fertility will last until 45+ because this is increasingly how it's portrayed in the media. However, it just doesn't.
And there are thousands upon thousands of donor egg cycles done in the US each year. A large number in places like NYC and California. Most (not all) of these pregnancies are never revealed as donor egg to anyone. We see a ton of women who don't even tell their mothers or sisters. It's a insanely secretive process. Anyway, you
just never know. Celebrities aren't miraculously super fertile. What they have going for them is money and ability to seek care.

So, bottom line-we don’t know AND it still isn’t any of our business

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Anonymous wrote:If it was a natural pregnancy more power to her. I just think these celebrities should publicly announce that they use donor eggs, if they do only because many ordinary women look up to them (unfortunately). This gives women a false impression and hope that they will be fertile in their 40s when the reality is mostly the opposite of that.

I could NOT agree more.

I think it's very unfortunate and creates a false sense of "you have all the time in the world!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I appreciate when celebrities are honest about their fertility circumstances, but it really isn’t any of our business.

I actually would not be surprised if this were a natural pregnancy. Do you really think she would have tried for 8 years with treatments...or put off trying, if they wanted kids together?

How do you know they didn't try naturally for the past 8 years and then turned to donor eggs? I have a friend who did this--got married at 40, tried naturally from age 40 to 44, including several "natural cycle" IVF cycles. Started the donor egg process at 45 and finally conceived at 46ish.

The thing is, you just don't know what happened.

Maybe she never thought she wanted another kid and then recently held a newborn and thought, "wow, I really want another kid" and decided to go for it and went straight to donor egg.
Who knows.

I work in a fertility clinic. It makes me a bit squeamish when people recount all the tales of "natural pregnancies at age 48 or 49. Sure, these conceptions happen but they're exceedingly rare. The vast majority of women will have difficulty conceiving at any time past the very early 40s. Many will see a marked decline in
fertility past age 39 or 40. Many will never have success in conceiving a baby. We see SO many women who have no idea that they won't be able to conceive at 41 or 42 or 43 (let alone 45+). They believe that fertility will last until 45+ because this is increasingly how it's portrayed in the media. However, it just doesn't.
And there are thousands upon thousands of donor egg cycles done in the US each year. A large number in places like NYC and California. Most (not all) of these pregnancies are never revealed as donor egg to anyone. We see a ton of women who don't even tell their mothers or sisters. It's a insanely secretive process. Anyway, you
just never know. Celebrities aren't miraculously super fertile. What they have going for them is money and ability to seek care.

people you seen in a fertility clinic are those struggling to conceive. what you are not seeing are all the older women who conceive naturally (many of them abort). your perspective is skewed... not saying it is easy or probably that one can get pregnant at 45 but it is definitely more common than fertility industry portrays it to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I appreciate when celebrities are honest about their fertility circumstances, but it really isn’t any of our business.

I actually would not be surprised if this were a natural pregnancy. Do you really think she would have tried for 8 years with treatments...or put off trying, if they wanted kids together?

How do you know they didn't try naturally for the past 8 years and then turned to donor eggs? I have a friend who did this--got married at 40, tried naturally from age 40 to 44, including several "natural cycle" IVF cycles. Started the donor egg process at 45 and finally conceived at 46ish.

The thing is, you just don't know what happened.

Maybe she never thought she wanted another kid and then recently held a newborn and thought, "wow, I really want another kid" and decided to go for it and went straight to donor egg.
Who knows.

I work in a fertility clinic. It makes me a bit squeamish when people recount all the tales of "natural pregnancies at age 48 or 49. Sure, these conceptions happen but they're exceedingly rare. The vast majority of women will have difficulty conceiving at any time past the very early 40s. Many will see a marked decline in
fertility past age 39 or 40. Many will never have success in conceiving a baby. We see SO many women who have no idea that they won't be able to conceive at 41 or 42 or 43 (let alone 45+). They believe that fertility will last until 45+ because this is increasingly how it's portrayed in the media. However, it just doesn't.
And there are thousands upon thousands of donor egg cycles done in the US each year. A large number in places like NYC and California. Most (not all) of these pregnancies are never revealed as donor egg to anyone. We see a ton of women who don't even tell their mothers or sisters. It's a insanely secretive process. Anyway, you
just never know. Celebrities aren't miraculously super fertile. What they have going for them is money and ability to seek care.

people you seen in a fertility clinic are those struggling to conceive. what you are not seeing are all the older women who conceive naturally (many of them abort). your perspective is skewed... not saying it is easy or probably that one can get pregnant at 45 but it is definitely more common than fertility industry portrays it to be.

+1
This!

[Anonymous]

People really are projecting so much of their own drama on this couple. Just let them be.

And I say this as someone who dealt with infertility myself

[Anonymous]

Just because someone makes movies does not give the public the right to know every detail of their private lives. Rachel doesn't seem like the actress to seek media attention...she and Daniel do not owe anyone an explanation as to how they conceived their baby.

On a personal note, I have twins. Random people would ask me if I conceived them naturally -- I was dumbstruck by their audacity to ask me such a personal question. In this day and age, some people have no boundaries and respect for personal matters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just because someone makes movies does not give the public the right to know every detail of their private lives. Rachel doesn't seem like the actress to seek media attention...she and Daniel do not owe anyone an explanation as to how they conceived their baby.

On a personal note, I have twins. Random people would ask me if I conceived them naturally -- I was dumbstruck by their audacity to ask me such a personal question. In this day and age, some people have no boundaries and respect for personal matters.

weisz and craig certainly don't owe anyone an explanation... but they chose careers whose whole point and the mark of ultimate success is to become a household name. so yes, people are going to speculate about their lives. given the number of people who are trying to become famous it's seems that's generally perceived as a small price to pay.

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So i looked this up out of interest.
In 2015 there were approx. 8200 babies born to women 45 and older in the US. (from CDC).

That same year there were a total of 22,709 donor IVF cycles started in the US with a success rate of 60% that year so about 13,700 donor egg babies. (This is the data from SART--society assisted reproductive technology--which includes the data of 80% of US fertility clinics).
How many of these are to women 45 and older? I'd estimate a half? 6850 babies. So you're talking about 1-2K naturally conceived babies over age 45 in the US. That's a very, very small number. Heck, 8K is a very, very small number when the overall number of births was 3.9 million.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So i looked this up out of interest.
In 2015 there were approx. 8200 babies born to women 45 and older in the US. (from CDC).

That same year there were a total of 22,709 donor IVF cycles started in the US with a success rate of 60% that year so about 13,700 donor egg babies. (This is the data from SART--society assisted reproductive technology--which includes the data of 80% of US fertility clinics).
How many of these are to women 45 and older? I'd estimate a half? 6850 babies. So you're talking about 1-2K naturally conceived babies over age 45 in the US. That's a very, very small number. Heck, 8K is a very, very small number when the overall number of births was 3.9 million.

This post makes no sense. You just made up half. Lots of people under 45 need help getting pregnant!

[Anonymous]

My youngest sister is 52 and is still having her periods like clockwork. She has never used BC pills, and got pregnant within weeks of her husband not using condoms. If they do not use condoms, I am pretty sure they will get pregnant. She also had her kids in her late 30s. She is very fertile and she is also naturally young looking just like Rachel Weisz.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I appreciate when celebrities are honest about their fertility circumstances, but it really isn’t any of our business.

I actually would not be surprised if this were a natural pregnancy. Do you really think she would have tried for 8 years with treatments...or put off trying, if they wanted kids together?

How do you know they didn't try naturally for the past 8 years and then turned to donor eggs? I have a friend who did this--got married at 40, tried naturally from age 40 to 44, including several "natural cycle" IVF cycles. Started the donor egg process at 45 and finally conceived at 46ish.

The thing is, you just don't know what happened.

Maybe she never thought she wanted another kid and then recently held a newborn and thought, "wow, I really want another kid" and decided to go for it and went straight to donor egg.
Who knows.

I work in a fertility clinic. It makes me a bit squeamish when people recount all the tales of "natural pregnancies at age 48 or 49. Sure, these conceptions happen but they're exceedingly rare. The vast majority of women will have difficulty conceiving at any time past the very early 40s. Many will see a marked decline in
fertility past age 39 or 40. Many will never have success in conceiving a baby. We see SO many women who have no idea that they won't be able to conceive at 41 or 42 or 43 (let alone 45+). They believe that fertility will last until 45+ because this is increasingly how it's portrayed in the media. However, it just doesn't.
And there are thousands upon thousands of donor egg cycles done in the US each year. A large number in places like NYC and California. Most (not all) of these pregnancies are never revealed as donor egg to anyone. We see a ton of women who don't even tell their mothers or sisters. It's a insanely secretive process. Anyway, you
just never know. Celebrities aren't miraculously super fertile. What they have going for them is money and ability to seek care.

people you seen in a fertility clinic are those struggling to conceive. what you are not seeing are all the older women who conceive naturally (many of them abort). your perspective is skewed... not saying it is easy or probably that one can get pregnant at 45 but it is definitely more common than fertility industry portrays it to be.

the fertility industry has a vested interest in making women believe natural conception will be hard. I don't believe for a minute this person works at a fertility clinic though that is completely pointless anyway since a lot of people work in medical facilities with no credentials (answering phones, restocking coffee, etc.). She fails to acknowledge that half of infertile couples are there because of issues with the male. And many causes of infertility have nothing to do with age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So i looked this up out of interest.
In 2015 there were approx. 8200 babies born to women 45 and older in the US. (from CDC).

That same year there were a total of 22,709 donor IVF cycles started in the US with a success rate of 60% that year so about 13,700 donor egg babies. (This is the data from SART--society assisted reproductive technology--which includes the data of 80% of US fertility clinics).
How many of these are to women 45 and older? I'd estimate a half? 6850 babies. So you're talking about 1-2K naturally conceived babies over age 45 in the US. That's a very, very small number. Heck, 8K is a very, very small number when the overall number of births was 3.9 million.

So you are grouping all women who are trying to have a baby together which is a bad way to do math. Statistically, a lot of women 45 and older will not be trying for a baby which right there is sufficient to explain the low birth rate. For one, the average age of first babies in the US is I believe 26, and the average number of babies per woman is 2.4. So by the time most women are 45, they've had the babies they want. I will be one of those women 45 and older not having a baby, simply because I had the family I wanted by mid 30s and don't want any more kids. That doesn't mean the fact that I won't be trying to have a baby after 45 should mean anything.

Second, there are some women who get to 45 without having kids, and those women have likely decided they don't want kids, maybe they tried earlier and couldn't have them. But anyway, I suspect not a lot of women wake up after 45 and say "I want to have kids!" Sure some do, hence the 8,200. But most don't. Further, you fail to take into account that 7,000 babies are aborted every year by women in this age group. Oopsies.

[Anonymous]

The most interesting facts in this thread to me are: (1) that the father is Daniel Craig - I had no idea they are a couple!; and (2) that Rachel Weisz is stillso drop dead gorgeous. I am happy for her and don’t care how this pregnancy came to be. Signed, Someone who experienced infertility and is sensitive to intrusive questions on the subject

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just because someone makes movies does not give the public the right to know every detail of their private lives. Rachel doesn't seem like the actress to seek media attention...she and Daniel do not owe anyone an explanation as to how they conceived their baby.

On a personal note, I have twins. Random people would ask me if I conceived them naturally -- I was dumbstruck by their audacity to ask me such a personal question. In this day and age, some people have no boundaries and respect for personal matters.

weisz and craig certainly don't owe anyone an explanation... but they chose careers whose whole point and the mark of ultimate success is to become a household name. so yes, people are going to speculate about their lives. given the number of people who are trying to become famous it's seems that's generally perceived as a small price to pay.

Meh I’m sure they want success but they aren’t like the Kardashian’s who call the tabloids or their tv crew every time they take a dump. There are celebs who are great about flying under their radar. I had no idea they were even a couple and I’m someone who follows this crap. Just because someone goes into acting doesn’t mean they want everyone to know about the intimate details of their lives.

People forget that in 20 years from now this donor egg or Rachel egg or whatever will have developed and been born and grown up and be a person possibly in college or in the world. Really crappy for people to say that they have a right to know how they were conceived. We just don’t. They may have chosen a public life but their kids and future kids have not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So i looked this up out of interest.
In 2015 there were approx. 8200 babies born to women 45 and older in the US. (from CDC).

That same year there were a total of 22,709 donor IVF cycles started in the US with a success rate of 60% that year so about 13,700 donor egg babies. (This is the data from SART--society assisted reproductive technology--which includes the data of 80% of US fertility clinics).
How many of these are to women 45 and older? I'd estimate a half? 6850 babies. So you're talking about 1-2K naturally conceived babies over age 45 in the US. That's a very, very small number. Heck, 8K is a very, very small number when the overall number of births was 3.9 million.

what? i estimate less than 5%. a vast majority of women 45+ have completed their families a long time ago or, if infertile, have closed that chapter of their lives. very very very few 45+ old women even in places like DCUM are trying to have children.