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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some women get pregnant naturally and easily at 43.  
Other women are completely infertile at that age. 
Most are in between.

There are about 400K IVF cycles each year in the US and about 10% or 40K are donor egg. 
Most people tell no-one about donor egg--not their mother, sister, best friend, etc.

I'm an IVF nurse. 
For all the people saying "so and so conceived this way, at that time": 
Unless you were in the room when it happened you really have no idea regardless of what the couple is (or isn't) saying. 
Couples lie all.the.time for their own protection.

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No, not this. Sure IVF is common and a lot of middle class folks can afford it with insurance coverage. Not so donor eggs - most folks aren't going to go down that road because of cost.

[b]I don't know why there is a contingent of women on DCUM who can't fathom that some women are fertile.[/b] My friend had 2 boys easily in her late 30s. At 42 they wanted to go for a third and yes they were hoping for a girl. After a few months of trying they did do IVF and she had her girl at 44.

No donor eggs, couldn't afford them and couldn't justify it for a 3rd baby, but because of her history of fertility she was a good candidate for IVF in her 40s. It doesn't work for everyone but if you are fertile it can work. 
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Everyone knows that *some* women can conceive effortlessly at 42+ and have a successful pregnancy, but realists who know a thing or two about fertility know that that is not the case with all the pregnant middle aged celebrities who can afford every fertility option.[/quote]

Infertility is not as common as those that seem to always jump on these threads seem to think, natural decline in fertility notwithstanding. It's why any doctor worth their salt will tell a woman still having periods that she can get pregnant and should use birth control if she doesn't want to. [/quote]
Yes, because while [u]all[/u] women’s fertility declines throughout their 40s, all women aren’t starting off with the same level of fertility at age 40, all women don’t go through peri menopause at the same age, all women don’t have the same uterine quality, all women are not having sex with the same frequency and timing, and all women don’t have perfectly fertile male sexual partners. Some women are very fertile at 43, but even that doesn’t mean that they have exactly the same odds of naturally conceiving and birthing a healthy baby in the next year that they had at age 25.

Some celebrities get knocked up the old fashioned way at 42+ and some use ART. Either way, they don’t owe the public any details — but people will speculate.[/quote]

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