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Women in their 30's & 40's

Submitted by: trent on Dec 26, 2010 - (Last updated: Oct 20, 2011)
  • According to the pregnancy history, the average recipient's age
    at pregnancy is around age 30.

Question and Answer:

  1. We are in our late 30's. Will you continue to donate if we don't get pregnant immediately?
    Yes, the goal is to remain available until pregnancy is successful.
     
  2. Our physician recommended we try fresh sperm to improve our odds. Do you provide fresh sperm?
    Yes, the sperm is provided fresh.
     
  3. Do you donate to older women?
    Yes, and this is seen as a rising trend.  

    The birth rate for women aged 30-39 has been rising, wheares the birth rate for women aged 20-24 declined to the "lowest rate on record" - Source CDC - "National Vital Statistics Report"


Below is some information that may be helpful to women in their 30's:

Article Quotes
Age and Fertility: Getting Pregnant in Your 30s - MSN Health
  • "Many consider the 30s the happy-medium age for motherhood"
Fewer Births in a Bad Economy - NY Times, Oct 12, 2011
 
  •  “older women are less likely to say that they have postponed fertility due to economic declines. They are the only age group that has shown consistent, if not rising, fertility in recent years.”
Pregnancy in Your 30s - Pregnancy Etc
  • "in 1999, 23% of babies who were firstborns were born to women who were in their 30s"
 The New Demography of American Motherhood
- Pew Research
  • "In 1990, there were more births to teenagers than to women ages 35 and older. By 2008, that had reversed—14% of births were to older women and 10% were to teens."
  • "Births to women ages 35 and older grew 64% between 1990 and 2008, increasing in all major race and ethnic groups."
  • "Another notable change during this period was the rise in births to unmarried women. In 2008, a record 41% of births in the United States were to unmarried women, up from 28% in 1990."
  • "The more education a woman has, the later she tends to marry and have children"
  • "The nation’s birth rate (births per 1,000 women of childbearing age) has declined 20% from 1990... but it has risen for unmarried women."

     
Doctors Urged to Counsel Against Delayed Childbearing - Medpage TODAY

"a short delay poses little absolute risk."
"Most pregnancies in women over 35 have good outcomes"

"Women who delay childbearing into their late 30s and 40s risk infertility, miscarriage, complicated pregnancies, delivering children more vulnerable to illness, and, ultimately, immense heartbreak"
 Encourage children to start a family sooner than later - myCentralJersey.com " In recent years, the trend of delaying marriage has caused a domino effect on other trends that have a significant emotional cost for families and an enormous financial cost to society. The dominoes are: delayed marriage, delayed childbearing, augmented infertility-elevated multiple births, increased rates of preterm births and Caesarean sections."
 Consequences to delayed  childbearing - myCentralJersey.com  "The decision to delay childbearing can have consequences that can bring unbearable stress to family life, specifically marriage"
Delayed childbirth may increase lobular breast cancer risk - MedWireNews "Women who give birth for the first time aged over 30 years are at increased risk for lobular breast cancer compared with their counterparts who are under 20 years of age, research shows."
Bad Economy Blamed for Women Delaying Pregnancy - ACOC.org "Overall, 14% of women ages 18-44 who were surveyed said that the economy has had an effect on their plans to increase the size of their family; among married women, this increased to 17%."
Kids of lesbians have fewer behavioral problems, study suggests - CNN - June 7, 2010 "The children "didn't arrive by accident," she said. "The mothers were older... they were waiting for an opportunity to have children and age brings maturity and better parenting."
More Pregnant Women Dying in CA, Says Study - MotherJones.com April 27, 2011
  • "due to increased obesity rates, more Cesarean sections, older mothers"

 

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