SUMMARY:If you're a woman in your 20s-40s you've undoubtedly heard admonishments to not wait too long to have kids/its too late to have kids. The scary statistics and numbers of a world where being 35 means near impossible odds of having healthy children have forced many women to make big decisions about their career, marriage, health and life that they may not have necessarily done then, or at all. But what if that clock is all wrong? Very interesting article dissecting all the "research" regarding women and fertility with age, some of which were conducted in the 1600s, and much of it misinterpreted by the media. Some findings; women in their late 20s have the same fertility odds as women in their early 30s. Another stat showed 78% of women 35-40 got pregnant by trying within a year. The typical woman is also able to get pregnant until somewhere between 40-45. There's lots of considerations this article looks at, the availability of birth control (which makes you more fertile when you come off it in later years), changes in society and not looking retrospectively at how long it took to have a baby but rather looking at cycle viability. In other words, Baby Panic of the late 30s can find a pacifier and suck it.
Site: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/how-long-can-you-wait-to-have-a-baby/309374/
