Probably the most important information women need to know is the correlation between age and fertility.
A woman’s fertility significantly declines from 35 years of age.
Women are born with all their eggs and steadily lose them from birth to menopause – at about 1,000 per month during reproductive years – this accelerates from the mid-30s and also results in reduced egg quality and lower birth rates.
By age 40, it is estimated that a female’s conception rate is in the range of 8-10 percent per month and at age 43 it is thought to be 1-3 percent per month.
So if you are considering delaying starting a family the options are: