28/01/2023
Topic: A Mother’s Age Can Affect Fertility, Pregnancy, And Childbirth?
In reproductive health, age matters, especially the age of the woman involved.
Normally starting a family is strictly a very personal decision by the couples. It is a case of different strokes, for different folks!
Before you start your family, if is very important to address the following key questions:
• Are you ready emotionally?
• Are you ready financially?
• Are you ready physically?
With the advent of reliable and effective contraceptives many couples have more control than ever over if and when they should have kids, and how many to have. So many women are choosing to wait.
While the decision regarding procreation is solely in the hands of the couples, it is however important to acknowledge the role of age in general fertility. Current research shows that many women don’t even realize how quickly their fertility can drop with age! A greater number of women, also don’t even know how early they can start having babies. The unfortunate thing about age, once it’s gone, you cannot retrieve it. Please note, in fertility treatments cannot always make up for that decline in fertility.
So many couples are exploring the advantages and benefits to delaying child-bearing.
Some women might want time:
1. To take advantage of valuable work and make some money
2. Fulfil an educational, or personal opportunities.
In summary, increased age can make it more difficult for your body to achieve pregnancy. So, it is pertinent important for women and their partners to understand how age can affect, not just fertility, but pregnancy, and childbirth.
Women, should also know what extent medical technologies can help.
• Generally, in women, fertility starts to decline markedly by the age of 35.
• However, please note, fertility varies from woman to woman and unfortunately, there is no way to reliably predict fertility decline.
• Women often lose their ability to conceive years before they have the first symptoms of menopause.
• Fertility declines mainly because of a decrease in the number and quality of eggs in your ovaries.
• Naturally, the loss of eggs begins even before you are born, as an unborn female has 6 to 7 million eggs; at birth she has 1 to 2 million; by menopause, only a few hundred remain.
• The condition of your eggs also changes as you age; they have a higher rate of chromosomal anomalies, which increases your chances of early miscarriage.
• Also, as you get older, you are more likely to have experienced other medical problems – such as endometriosis, fibroids, tubal disease, or polyps – which can reduce your fertility.
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