Late pregnancy is no longer taboo, but there are a few things you should know about it. Find out here what advantages and disadvantages there may be if you want to have children.
Late desire to have children: How realistic is the whole thing?
Life teaches us early on that everything often turns out differently than we think – including our own planning for the future and family. There is nothing nicer than thinking about children and your partner one moment, and standing there the next other priorities way up there. Sometimes fate gets in the way. No matter what it is, everyone Women in their early 20s have children is no longer the standard. Fortunately!
According to the Federal Statistical Office, there were women in Germany in 2020 average 30.2 years old when they had their first child. Women, just like men, first want to take up a job and pursue it. Other wishes in life also need to be realized first before family planning begins. The pressure to have children as quickly as possible is also decreasing because there are now many non-invasive methods to better weigh the risks early on in a late pregnancy. Nevertheless, experts advise don’t start too lateif there is actually a desire to have children.
This is how fertility changes
But what does a desire to have children late actually mean? After all, women in their 30s still have an excellent chance of becoming pregnant, even if their fertility slowly declines. Aged On average, there is a 25 percent chance after 25 yearsto get pregnant. From the age of 30 it is still 20 percent, and by the end of the 30 it works in around ten to twelve percent of cases per month. At 40, only around five to eight percent and Over 45 it is almost impossible, even for women to have children. On the one hand, this is because both the number of eggs and the quality of the eggs decrease over time. Of course, it should not be forgotten that although men can father children well into old age, they can also father children in old age the quality of sperm decreases.
There are ways to get pregnant at 40
Even if the chances are no longer that high: women have various options to fulfill their desire to have children despite their advanced age. Doctors often recommend having the causes clarified as quickly as possible if pregnancy does not work out within the first six months. For example, it can be examined whether there is a cycle disorder, ovulation occurs less frequently, the fallopian tubes are blocked or the partner’s sperm quality is not sufficient. Furthermore, it is advisable to have one Fertility treatment to begin soon.
The well-known presenter Saran Valentina Winkhaus can also report from her own experience. She has long known that she wants to become a mother. For her partner, this decision was not so clear and so after a while she decided to take her fate into her own hands. So she decided against the partnership and for a child.
At the age of 37, Sarah Valentina Winkhaus entered a fertility practice for the first time. “I came in thinking I was fertile and walked out an old maid.” She also points out the Stand-by-Falle attentive: “You’re always waiting. For the right moment, for the right partner, until the partner is ready. And you’re afraid that your career will suffer.” Thanks to Social Freezing (the precautionary freezing of unfertilized eggs) and Collaborator She could ultimately fulfill her desire to have children independently and independently of others.
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