Shelf Life of Women?

[chitownxo]

Originally Posted by fantASTic

It is generally accepted that once a woman hits 30, she needs to seriously consider either having children immediately or [in today's world] freezing her eggs as the ability of the body to spontaneously abort eggs with 'problems' is much less accurate.

It may be "generally accepted" by someone (citation, please) that women after 30 need to freeze their eggs, but this is the first I've heard of it. My mom taught OB Nursing for several years, and she has several friends who are still practicing. From what my OB tells me, 35-40 is the more "generally accepted" age range. I think she's had more than 15 credits of biology, too.

As for me, I'm having my first child at the age of (gasp) 39, and I can tell you the eggs were fresh, and not frozen.

[KSUViolet06]

I'm 23 and single and let me tell you that I'm not running out and having a baby at 30 (unless I'm married by then) simply because "it's generally accepted" that I do so.

I think it just depends on the individual, I know that fertility does decline after 30, but not so much that it can't happen. My mom had my youngest brother at 35, and they hadn't even been trying for 6 months when she got pregnant.

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

I think it just depends on the individual, I know that fertility does decline after 30, but not so much that it can't happen. My mom had my youngest brother at 35, and they hadn't even been trying for 6 months when she got pregnant.

Yeah, I don't think it's so much women who have already had children who have problems, it's the women who start trying after 35 that potentially run into problems with their fertility. Both of my grandmothers had children into their 40s--but they had several children in their 20s and 30s.