Posted on 04/03/2017 3:25:54 PM PDT by mdittmar
Fertility in women declines with age, and scientists have found a new explanation for why this happens. They identified a specific defect in the eggs of older female mice, which resulted in these eggs having an abnormal number of chromosomes – and they think women may be going through something similar.
When women reach their late thirties or forties, the likelihood of getting pregnant starts decreasing. This has been linked to the fact that their risk of having eggs with the wrong number of chromosomes is higher – a phenomenon known as aneuploidy
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My Grandmother was 48 when she gave birth to her last child.
No drugs or surrogates involved.
Just Grandpa
I’m 40 and on my second pregnancy in a year. Irish twins for us.
I believe it. When you’ve had a healthy reproductive system all your life, it just keeps going. I don’t believe any of the statistics about age. They don’t have enough women or men with unaltered fertility to do real studies.
Many women are divorced after 40 too. Their looks and attitudes are not conducive for sex to occur.
Jeez, I’m a 69 year old woman, and already knew this crap. Are these the same scientists who promoted global warming?
Look, women are really best in their late teens and twenties. Society lies to the teenagers. Some women are ready to go at 12 or 13. Its natural, as god intended. Society is trying to fit pregnancies in the thirties or early forties but its not natural. Women’s eggs start becoming old as early as the mid thirties and the chance of pregnancy starts to decline by forty so that in some women it halves every year.
There are always a few 55 or 56 year old women that come up with a baby naturally. But after 50 there are only a hand full of births each year in America. The numbers are like 7 births from 53 year olds. Its always really small.
Men also start to lose their fertility too. But its much slower. Yes some men can father children in their nineties. But that too is very rare. The act itself is harder for men as they age. And then there are the seamen which aren’t what they used to be.
Just remember all women are different, as are all men. You can’t just say that women can’t have babies after 45 or after 50. Some have menopause in their early forties others have it closer to sixty. Just because there is an average does not make that anything you should consider to be your personal norm. From this article all you can glean is that women’s eggs do degrade. They become less viable with age. And whether that happens to you at 42 or 58, you still can’t have children as readily as you could when you were 22.
I’ll be lucky if I make it to 69.
They’re not as hot as they once were so...
One of my favorite songs!
Women are designed to spend their teens and 20's having babies. Besides, having kids after 40 means that you will be spending your 50's and 60's dealing with teenagers and college. Not fun.
I know how you feel. I was the baby of the family, and am the only one left. At least I have my two sons. I'm hoping to make it to 70, because my mother and an older sister both died at 69. My brother died at 51, my father at 72, and my oldest sister made it to 74, but that was only because she'd been institutionalized for most of her adult life. If she'd been living on her own, she probably never would have gotten to 74 because she was an alcoholic.
LOL! It's even harder once they have a cat collection.
They misspelled "twenties."
It’s not natural for pregnancies that young.
It’s hell to get old;)
How large was the government grant?
And now apparently it count count chromosomes.. fave movie!
I got pregnant at 4o-planned.Had her at 41.The nurses said your the oldest lady we ever delivered.They waited for my family to show up to take a picture.I name her Mary and her 5 Brothers and Sisters lined up with my husband our new Baby.Fun.
Yes, but as men age, statistically, they tend to shoot a lot more blanks. It doesn’t mean plenty of men can’t fertilize eggs in their advanced years, but the stats change.
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