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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I'm very surprised that so many people were unaware of the deline of fertility. I am currently pregnant with my second and will soon be 39 and have been accutely aware of my declining fertility since... well... since my mid 20s. [/quote]
I think that a lot of women, maybe most women, are aware that it's harder to get pregnant when you're 40 than when you're 20. I think where there may be ignorance is how steep the decline is. For example, if someone thinks that it takes two months on average to get pregnant when you're 20 and six months on average to get pregnant when you're 45, that shows they understand there's a decline, but they are still WAY overestimating the ease of getting pregnant in one's 40s.

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I think this is pretty close to the truth. I was of course aware of the decline, but not of the slope of the decline. And it seemed that, since I would spend 5 years being 40-44 there was still plenty of chance to get pregnant once, and maybe even twice. So I didn't even think about it before I turned 35.[/quote]

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