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If you’re over 35, you’re in good company; 26 percent of all first-time moms in the United States are over 35! Despite this, Mother Nature doesn’t make it easy to get pregnant past age 35. There is also an exceedingly higher rate of women who begin having children in their 40s and even 50s, but keep in mind, unlike the tabloids would like you to think, many of these women may require the intervention of an donor egg and/or surrogacy … but more on this later! However, a number of women do begin or continue to have children without help through their early to middle 40s. We discuss the impact of age in greater detail in Chapter 7.

For example:

 By your late 30s, you have a 10 percent chance of getting pregnant in any given month, and 17 percent of those who do will miscarry.

 If you’re over 40, the pregnancy rate per month slips to 5 percent, with 34 percent of those miscarrying.

 By age 45, your chance per month of conceiving is less than 1 percent, and 53 percent of those will miscarry.