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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it’s your first, you are very unlikely to conceive naturally at 40. The women having kids at 45 are using donor eggs or eggs they’ve frozen from a prior IVF cycle. My RE used to get so upset about celebrities [b]pretending like they were having their own biological kids so old.[/b]  [/quote]

THIS is probably the reason that "educated" women like OP is ill informed about fertility.

Women who omit certain truths about how they got pregnant over 35 are doing other women a great disservice. Put your vanity aside and get real about IVF, donor eggs, the expense and reality of trying to get and stay pregnant later in life. [/quote]

We omit the truth because other women don't really want to hear it. They only want to hear the upside. Otherwise you're an unsupportive bad friend bringing her down. So, we tell other women want they want to hear because they apparently can't handle the truth.[/quote]

In my experience, you have to be pretty grown up before people start discussing early miscarriages with you.

I didn't know my grandma had a miscarriage until I was 36 and pregnant with my second.  At that point it was 50+ years in the past, and she'd had her desired number of kids.  A lot of people don't talk about health issues unless they are obvious to onlookers and/or there's a reason to share knowledge and personal experience.[/quote]

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