Quote: Originally Posted by FoxyBride It's not just talk that having a baby over 35 carries more complications than it does for a younger woman. We produce eggs when we start menstruating and we have those same eggs until we go through menopause. The doctors just want you to be aware of the increased risks for complications as you age since, although society is waiting to have babies at a later age, our bodies are not. It is also harder for a woman to conceive at a later age. My mom had children at 23, 32, & 34 and miscarriages at 35 & 37. It's not a scare tactic. It's the doctor's job to make sure you are aware of the increased risks that waiting causes. Not to say that you won't have a healthy baby (I think there was a 60 year old who delivered recently) but you have to take all that into account.
Another thing you can do is freeze your eggs now so that when you start trying, you are using the younger eggs. Actually, our egg count is highest prior to birth, so we have the same eggs all of our lives, not just since menstruation. I'm a soon-to-be-pharmacist (graduate in May) and I just saw a lecture given by an ob-gyn about this. He described TTC after age 35 as "scraping the bottom of the egg barrel." Another thing that could happen later is that your hormones could get jacked up making it harder to get pregnant (perimenopause). The lecturer suggested getting salivary hormone levels tested if infertility occurs.