The age of motherhood in our country is increasingly advanced, which causes many couples or single women to encounter fertility problems when they decide to take the step.
The quantity and quality of a woman’s oocytes begins to decline sharply after the age of 35, making it very difficult to achieve pregnancy naturally by the age of 40. For this reason, more and more women are requiring assisted reproduction treatments in order to have a baby.
It is true that being a mother at 40 can have advantages: greater economic stability, experience, wisdom, time for parenting… But it also presents certain difficulties, such as possible complications during pregnancy or genetic abnormalities, or difficulties in achieving pregnancy.
What are the chances of getting pregnant at 40?
Numerous studies claim that the chances of getting pregnant after this age in a single ovulation cycle are only 5%. And, as you get older, the problem gets worse. For example, when you turn 43, the chances drop drastically to 1% or 2%.
Therefore, women of this age who are trying to get pregnant naturally should not wait more than 6 months without consulting a specialist if they are not successful. Time is running out.
It is important to seek good fertility advice early in order to improve the chances of pregnancy through reproductive techniques. The success rate with these techniques is between 60 and 80 percent.
It may be the case that pregnancy with one’s own eggs is not possible. In these cases, it is advisable to resort to egg donation, a technique that is increasingly in demand. This assisted reproduction technique currently has the highest success rate in cases of older women, with a percentage of around 70 to 80 percent.