Wife and I almost missed the boat. in 2005, After 15yrs of marriage (she was 39 and I was 43) she finally got pregnant. All it took was $40K for In-Vitro and we have a perfect little girl. But after age 40, the chances of having another one drop by about 80% or so. We got lucky.
I’ll tell my little girl not to wait to long also.
My story is similar. I waited until 27 to try to start a family, hardly elderly. After ten years of treatments, surgery, taking my temperature every morning, taking fertility drugs, two failed in-vitro attempts, and two miscarriages I was over the moon happy to give birth to my daughter at age 37. The ten year marathon effort wore me out emotionally and we decided to accept whatever came our way naturally after her birth. I never conceived again but God gave me an absolutely perfect daughter. It’s a biological fact that fertility decreases with each passing year after puberty. Combine that with a faulty reproductive system and a woman can find herself out of luck.
$40K. That’s gonna make my day a little different.