Last night I watched a program on 60 minutes about The Biological Clock, and how age affects fertility.
…the average woman’s ability to get pregnant begins to slow down as early as 30.
By 37, fertility is dropping steeply, and even with the most advanced medical techniques, virtually no women over the age of 44 are able to have a baby using their own eggs.
Nowadays with modern medicine and fertility clinics there is an overwhelming belief among people (myself included) that children can wait, and that a career can come first. Clinics advertise in the newspapers and on television. There are plenty of options, fertility drugs, in-vitro, etc… You watch reports in the news of 40-50-even 60 year old couples having children. However most places don’t tell you that odds are that 50 year old couple didn’t use the woman’s eggs in the process.
The truth of the matter is that The Biological Clock is still ticking, and it’s still ticking at the same speed. In a nutshell if you haven’t had children by age 35 chances are you won’t be able too.
I myself had no idea this was the case, and thinking about it almost half of my office is currently undergoing fertility treatments to try and get pregnant. This isn’t an argument to have kids at 25, but if you really want them, you should be getting serious at 30.