Modern Fertility Anxiety
The many stories circulating about fertility problems and treatments may give you the impression that the incidence of infertility is rising.
On the other hand, a 2002 CDC report says that infertility has actually declined substantially in the past twenty years, though that report has been disputed.
If you’re confused about fertility, it’s probably because you’ve been paying attention—the messages out there are mighty mixed.
Though the use of fertility treatments is rising, there’s no evidence that the intrinsic span of women’s fertile years has changed much over time.
While advancing treatment options can expand the span for some, the blockage of fallopian tubes brought on by pelvic inflammatory disease or endometriosis can impair it for others. Then there’s the male infertility element.
So if women aren’t more infertile now than in the past, why are the numbers of visits to fertility doctors rising?
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Ready: Why Women Are Embracing The New Later Motherhood
by Elizabeth Gregory
-- Over the past three decades, skyrocketing numbers of women have chosen to start their families in their late thirties and early forties.
In 2005, ten times as many women had their first child between the ages of 35 and 39 as in 1975, and thirteen times as many had their first between 40 and 44.
Women now have the option to define for themselves when they're ready for family, rather than sticking to a schedule set by social convention.
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Category: endometriosis, Fertility, Male Fertility, pelvic inflammatory disease
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