What are the statistics regarding age and fertility?
New studies suggest that fertility begins to wane when women reach their early 30’s, and even in the most fertile populations of women studied, only about 50% retain their natural ability to conceive by age 40; by age 45, that number falls to below 10%. It is also quite difficult to know which women are at risk for infertility. With most other medical conditions, physicians can take a personal or family history, run some lab tests, do some imaging studies, do a physical exam, and figure out who is at risk for contracting the condition. But with infertility, extremely healthy women are still at risk.
