What is a womans natural biological clock?
When it comes to issues of fertility, it is the age of the egg, not the age of the woman that matters most. Women are born with a finite number of eggs, around 1 million. At puberty, that number has dwindled to 400,000 and subsequently an average of 750 eggs are lost each month. The eggs not only begin to diminish in quantity, but also in quality. The combination of these factors leads to a womans fertility beginning to decline in her 20s and significantly deteriorating after age 35. According to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), a woman over age 40 has only a 5 percent chance or less of becoming pregnant naturally in any one month. Furthermore, the risk of chromosomal abnormalities in newborns increases with the age of the woman’s egg, growing to 1 in 66 at age 40 versus 1 in 385 at age 30. Research has found that when women use donor eggs from younger women, they can achieve the same pregnancy success rates as women in their 20’s. Extend Fertilitys egg freezing s
