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Imagine believing this. It's selfish, gross, and an extremely dangerous pregnancy. Why not fess up and admit you sacrificed your childbearing years for money and fame.[b] Why not be transparent on how hard it's been to get pregnant naturally after you turn 30 let alone 35.[/b] Why not be open about anything past age 35 is a geriatric pregnancy. Playing pretend does nothing but promote a lie to harm other younger women who think they can wait.[/quote]

Say what?

The vast majority of women under the age of 40 (yes, that is 4-0, [b]forty[/b], 40) who try to get pregnant will be pregnant within a year.

Of course, if you're one of the exceptions, it can be tremendously painful. I get that.[/quote]

This. Doctors have scared the beejesus out of women about not having a baby by 35 while not talking enough about old men's sperm and the role it plays in neuro issues. [/quote]

That we all know a lot of women who have had babies after 35 seems to suggest women aren't really scared. Many are even putting it off until their 40s because of stories like this. But there's a reason fertility clinics are so profitable and busy. Plenty of women aren't getting pregnant that easily at any age, but especially in their 40s. [/quote]

Look, if there were fertility clinics 100 years ago they would have been busy even when everyone got married at 20.  Look back at your family tree—everyone had childless aunts in every generation.  Some adopted from orphanages, and others were just loving aunties.  Look at king Henry viii — his wives were plenty young and all had fertility problems (maybe his).  There is now just much more of an expectation that every woman is going to be able to bear her own babies—that really wasn’t true in the course of human history and it wasn’t because of delayed childbirth.  I think a lot of women end up with unexpected pregnancies in their late 30s and 40s because they assume it would take a minor miracle for them to get pregnant so they figure they can roll the dice once or twice.  The media has way overstated the effects of age.  [/quote]

This, 100%. And yes, I am one of these women with an unexpected pregnancy in my 40s because I rolled the dice. Once: that's all it took. So from my sample of one :), the hysteria about the dramatic drop of fertility over the age of 35 or 40 is just that, hysteria. [/quote]

Thanks for your anecdote!

Re hysteria, look at some actual stats, even for IVF success rates.[/quote]

The stats are based on women who try to get pregnant over 40, cannot, and then go to RE doctors. Most women are not actively trying to get pregnant after 40, and the ones with accidental pregnancies won’t tell you about their abortion. And then there are the oops babies, of which I know at least half a dozen in my circle of friends. All born to moms over 40 who thought their fertility would be done by 40/42/44.

IVF is often an inferior process compared to a natural conception, barring any major reproductive issues. It is inferior at any age, but especially so after 40. Just look at the numerous posts by women who took years to conceive with IVF only to then accidentally and “miraculously” fall pregnant naturally. [/quote]

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