Most women in their early 30s are fertile.

Both of my kids were conceived within months of trying, both after age 32. Most people just don't have trouble. It sucks for those that do of course.

Anonymous wrote:This is ghastly. I don't think he required her to be screened as a pre-condition of marrying her. Maybe they had a conversation about donor eggs in the event of infertility, but I doubt he had her get officially screened.

it wouldn't have been his choice.

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Anonymous wrote:Some people are fertile.

Exactly. Most people, in fact. (See: global population.)

the overwhelming majority of people are very fertile.

DH and I did the whole battery of tests and were completely fertile but we're never able to conceive. And that was mid-20s! You just never know.

I get the impression that the Europeans don't use quite as many toxic pesticides on their foods or quite as many toxic personal care products on their bodies as Americans. Their governmental standards are much stricter than ours.

I truly believe the epidemic of infertility here in the U.S. is due to decades of toxic crap building up in everyone's systems. My DH is from another country (I'm American) and when we were having trouble, I did testing and he did SA. His SA numbers blew the analyst away, and she asked sight unseen if he was from another country. Apparently men in this country used to have numbers like his but it's been a couple generations since it was the norm, and standards for SA keep going down.

Of course, as the American, it ended up being me who had the issues, and it took a fair amount of time and money to overcome them (3 years and IUI for #1). I eliminated all perfumes, shampoos, body washes, etc, and use things like coconut oil and castille soap only now. And I switched to more local food from farmers whom I could ask face-to-face how they'd treated their food. Put a RO filter on the faucet for drinking water. For baby #2 it took exactly 3 months of trying. Clearly this is anecdotal, but I think it is a common enough experience and the environment here is so, so trashed, that I can't imagine it doesn't make an impact.

Anonymous wrote:Some people are fertile.

Exactly. Most people, in fact. (See: global population.)

Some people are fertile.

Anonymous wrote:This is ghastly. I don't think he required her to be screened as a pre-condition of marrying her. Maybe they had a conversation about donor eggs in the event of infertility, but I doubt he had her get officially screened.

Maybe he would not....I would not put it below Elizabeth however.

and all the screening in the world can't figure out some issues. We had testing, everything looked fine. Yet, it still took us 3.5 years to conceive #2. After having zero problems conceiving #1.

Anonymous wrote:Screening was probably a requirement in a family like theirs. Also I wouldn't discredit the chance that they did have trouble conceiving, they just have limitless funds and the best treatments available to them.

If they did treatments, it didn't take long. Even with all the money in the world and the best doctors, it can still take years. If only money could buy a speedier resolution.

They're married April 2011. She announces she's pregnant December 2012. I don't think they had a whole hell of a lot of trouble.

This is ghastly. I don't think he required her to be screened as a pre-condition of marrying her. Maybe they had a conversation about donor eggs in the event of infertility, but I doubt he had her get officially screened.

Screening was probably a requirement in a family like theirs. Also I wouldn't discredit the chance that they did have trouble conceiving, they just have limitless funds and the best treatments available to them.

I'd guess she was screened somehow.

Considering how its her job to produce an heir, I'm surprised William waited until they were 30 to get married and have children. They're very lucky she did not have any fertility issues...Do you think she was screened for fertility issues before he put a ring on it? Could he have married her without knowing she was a 100% fertile?