My mum sent me something useful about maternity for once! Thanks mum :). 35 tomorrow. Speed bump approaching :) 2 Fertility falls off a cliff at 35 There you are, at your 35th birthday, having drinks in your local wine bar with your girlfriends – love the girls!!!!!!! – and suddenly, on the stroke of midnight, BANG! Your ovaries have burst out of your body (think John Hurt in Alien). Off they go, scampering through All Bar One and then out the door, across the street and WHEE over a cliff, Wile E Coyote-style. Bye-bye, fertility! This image of women reaching The Cliff of Infertility on their 35th birthday is a very popular one. Allsopp herself is fond of it. The fact that it is based on outdated material is mere detail. In fact, according to a recent study, 78% of 35- to-40-year-old women trying to get pregnant conceived within a year, compared with 84% of 20- to-34-year-olds. So a drop of, er, 6%. More of a speed bump than a cliff, really. Yes, risks of miscarriage and birth abnormalities do rise with age, but they remain comparatively very low. In any case, the risk of genetic mutations rises with older fathers, too, although you wont hear as much about that in the news because men arent quite as satisfying to needle. Women should educate themselves and talk to their GP. What women shouldnt do is listen to ignorant scaremongering. Yes, women do need to know that it does get tougher to conceive the older they get, but (a) the whole 35 thing is nonsense and (b) as already discussed, THEY KNOW. theguardian/lifeandstyle/2014/jun/03/kirsty-allsopp-advice-nigel-farage-woman-life-choices
Posted on: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 16:56:20 +0000
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