Young women get pregnant if they get anywhere near a spermatazoa. Women at 40 often spends tens of thousands of dollars and still have difficulty having a child. Take heed young women.
And remember Sarah older women, and take heart, if God wills it, it is done!
Interesting. But I’d like more evidence.
All the women in my family had babies when they were in their forties.
One aunt was 47, and had just sent her “last” child off to college, when she conceived and had another (very healthy) son.
The info in this article could be misused to pressure women over forty into having abortions.
The exception to the rule will be the good looking girlfriend you DON’T want to have kids with. A real bad day goes like this : “Good news. You get to pay me child support”
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Maybe but we went for 11 years with no kids and at 42 my wife up and has twins, go figure.
I’m confused. There’s only supposed to be one egg a month. That’s 13 a year, or about 500 or so in a lifetime. What difference does it make how many eggs are sitting around?
And over time, I’d expect there to be fewer eggs left. If the first egg is releaased at age 12, and the last egg is released at age 45, that means 33 years of eggs, and 88% of those eggs would have been gone by age 41 anyway.
Is the study saying that as you get in your late 30s, you have months when no egg presents itself, because you are running out of them? I just don’t get it.
Most women produce a single ovum per month from menses to menapause, over a period of at most 40 years. A woman really only needs about 500 ova yet starts with several million.
I hope that this is true.
I’ve got 2 kids (with my wife ... its kinda sad that I need to say that outright), and broke through 2 different birth control methods to get them. It would be good if we were through 80% of her eggs ... not sure I need another rugrat (I kid ... I love them to death).
If a third birth control fails ... our next birth control method may have to be kryptonite.
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What’s more, after you’re 40 it’s pretty hard to get used to married life. I used to think people should wait. Now I say “Jump right in, your chances are no worse at 20 than at 40.”
I don’t doubt the science, but it’d the darndest juxtaposition:
1. Folks are most fertile at 15-19; yet
2. How many folks that age are emotionally mature enough for parenthood?
It’s a pity we don’t peak at 25 8)
I’m always hoping the old wives tale of multiple births skipping a generation comes true, only I hope it’s the first pregnancy and not the last...
My dad is a triplet, conceived when my grandmother was 36. He has an older brother 5 years older than him.
My wife and I have been trying since September to start a family. She is 32 and I’m 33. We are both in great health but we realize it’s God’s decision not ours.
So that’s why women’s chances of getting married start declining at age 25 and really go downhill after 30!
I’m 39 and I’ve never been married but would like to. Think I’ll start my search in the age 18 demographic because I do want to have children.
If any FReepers have some proven conception advice, this’d be a good thread to post it ;)
This was the dirty little secret no one told the first generation of women to be urged en masse to “have a career first.” They basically thought they could have a baby any time they wanted and that there was no risk at all in putting pregnancy off.
Another thing not contemplated: some people do mull over what it’s going to be like to be an older mother (in mid- or late 30’s when baby is born), but I can guarantee nothing quite prepares someone for being that parent of a young teen when you are over 50 years old yourself. (Perhaps this is different for people who have already raised a bunch of kids and who still have teenagers when they reach their 50’s.)
A woman will only ovulate a few hundred times in her life. She will certainly never run out of eggs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/13/health/studies-aim-to-preserve-fertility-of-women-in-chemotherapy.html?sec=health&spon=&pagewanted=all
“”A woman’s egg supply peaks before she herself is born, with at least 7 million eggs packed into the fetal ovary. By birth the number dwindles to a million, and then drops to 300,000 by puberty””