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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd heard all this scary stuff about being in your late 30s and having fertility issues. Then I conceived two kids at 36 and 39 our first month trying both times.  I know a lot of women like me including my mother who had an Oops baby at 43 -but no one ever talks about this.[/quote]
Glad that worked out for you but it is not the normal

[img]http://www.bellenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Scientists-have-devised-a-formula-that-predicts-a-woman’s-chances-of-pregnancy.jpg?9de5ef[/img][/quote]

I don't know where that data came from.  Here is a better explanation:

"Surprisingly few well-designed studies of female age and natural fertility include women born in the 20th century—but those that do tend to paint a more optimistic picture. One study, published in Obstetrics & Gynecology in 2004 and headed by David Dunson (now of Duke University), examined the chances of pregnancy among 770 European women. It found that with sex at least twice a week, 82 percent of 35-to-39-year-old women conceive within a year, compared with 86 percent of 27-to-34-year-olds. (The fertility of women in their late 20s and early 30s was almost identical—news in and of itself.) Another study, released this March in Fertility and Sterility and led by Kenneth Rothman of Boston University, followed 2,820 Danish women as they tried to get pregnant. Among women having sex during their fertile times, 78 percent of 35-to-40-year-olds got pregnant within a year, compared with 84 percent of 20-to-34-year-olds. A study headed by Anne Steiner, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, the results of which were presented in June, found that among 38- and 39-year-olds who had been pregnant before, 80 percent of white women of normal weight got pregnant naturally within six months (although that percentage was lower among other races and among the overweight). “In our data, we’re not seeing huge drops until age 40,” she told me."

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/how-long-can-you-wait-to-have-a-baby/309374/

In other words, fertility in most of your 30s is not all that much different from fertility in your 20s.

The reason 30 year old women are considered "old" is that their value is still intrinsically tied to reproduction in our sexist world.  Eventually this comes around to men too -- it just takes a decade longer, when people start looking askance at never-married 40-year old men.  [/quote]

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