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I’m as annoyed by those “Have a baby now now now now” stories that periodically crop up in the news as anyone. After all, plenty of us were still in school, launching careers, or completely undecided on the baby question when we were in our twenties. But this story from the Washington Post was a little unsettling, even for me. According to a study from the University of St. Andrews and Edinburgh University published last month, a woman has lost 88 percent of the eggs she was born with by age 30, and 97 percent are gone by age 40. Continue reading »
Unlike a lot of people who deal with infertility, I had a diagnosis and an expectation that things would go not so well long before I was remotely interested in having kids. I was diagnosed with PCOS at age 23 and my wonderful primary care doctor was fairly nonchalant about the fact that when I did want to get pregnant, a little Clomid would do the trick.
It didn’t. But at least I was able to tell my now-husband that getting pregnant might not be so easy once things started getting serious, so neither of us were especially surprised when things didn’t go so well. Many of my friends who also faced down infertility said they envied me that, that I was able to tell my partner long before we were formally committed and let him decide if he was up for the challenges we might face.
A new genetic test might give a new group of women that chance. Continue reading »
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