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I’m 42, and my wife is 41. We got married last Aug., and we want to conceive. I hope that we can, if we keep trying.

You're not alone. We've been trying for a little over two years and I'm the same age as you (although my wife's a few years younger than yours).

It's fun trying, but it sure would be great to succeed while I'm young enough to expect to live to see the kids graduate from high school.

We used natural family planning to “space” our children. Now I think, if we hadn’t known, through that method, when I was fertile, we probably wouldn’t have conceived naturally. We would have faced the age-related declining ovaries and the missed timing. I had them at age 36 and 38. I was told at 44 that it was way too late and I should give up on any more.

I recommend learning exactly what your body is doing.

Good luck! I’m sure some little soul somewhere is going to be your baby.

also, to somebody else who was talking about someone conceiving in their 40s, we know a couple of people who conceived naturally at 50. But you need to come from long-lived stock, it seems.