Here’s what to know about getting pregnant at 40 or older.
How chances of getting pregnant change with age.
A woman is born with all the eggs she is ever going to have.
As she gets older, the quantityandquality of her eggs decrease.
Once the number of eggs is nearly depleted, a woman enters menopause.
The answer is simple: The quality of her eggs is poor.
I like to think of eggs as cars.
The first year you have a car it works great.
How old is too old to have a baby?
A woman’s fertility starts to decline after 30, with more significant changes after the age of 35.
(Here are signs of fertility to keep an eye out for.)
This is understandably a hard concept for women to grasp.
Can IVF increase the chances of getting pregnant at 40?
IVF is not a total cure for fertility struggles.
IVF can help women ovulate more eggs in one cycle to optimize fertility.
However, IVF cannot reverse the aging process of the eggs that I discussed earlier.
We can’t make a 45-year-old egg act like a 30-year-old egg.
The benefit of the ovarian stimulation portion of IVF is less than ideal.
Health risks of carrying a pregnancy at 40 and above.
A woman can carry a pregnancy well into her late 40s without any issues.
The bottom line for getting pregnant at 40.
Meantime, here are someways to boost fertility, plusfoods to eat to help with fertility.
