crazy fertility question??

Question

a good friend of mine told me that her mother told her that women are the least fertile between 21 and 26 years old?? any truth to this??im 23 going on 24 and we are trying to have another baby(i had my 4 year old when i was 19).if this is true i would like to know so i could stop freaking out about not being pregnant...my friend is on the phone with waiting for an answer too lol!!!!

Answer 1

MULE FRITTERS!.. getter done.. you could grow flowers in there till the cows come home honey!.. you are as fertile as they get...

Answer 2

Not true, I'm 23 and have a son and my mother was pregnant 5 times (2 miscarriages) between the ages of 22 and 28.

Answer 3

"Fertility varies from person to person and at different stages of life. The following facts are true for most people:

The fertility of both men and women reaches it peak at about the age of 24

Among couples having intercourse regularly without contraception, 25 perent of women will conceive in the first month, 60 percent within six months, 75 percent within nine months, 80 percent within a year and 90 percent within 18 months

After ovulation and egg can only be fertilised during the next 12-24 hours or so. "

Answer 4

I don't have an answer to your question as I am dealing with the same thing. I got pregnant when I was 19, almost 20 and now being twenty four, we are having major dificulties getting pregnant again. We have been trying for 3 years. So, from someone who understands your frustration, good luck to you

Answer 5

Female Fertility After 35
Women's fertility peaks in their twenties, and deteriorates after 30. Of women trying to get pregnant, without using fertility drugs:

At age 30, 75% will get pregnant within one year, and 91% within four years.
At age 35, 66% will get pregnant within one year, and 84% within four years.
At age 40, 44% will get pregnant within one year, and 64% within four years.1
Those figures are for conception, not for the birth of a healthy baby. According to the March of Dimes, "about 9 percent of recognized pregnancies for women aged 20 to 24 ended in miscarriage. The risk rose to about 20 percent at age 35 to 39, and more than 50 percent by age 42."2

Birth defects also increase with the age of the mother. According to the March of Dimes, "At age 25, a woman has about a 1-in-1,250 chance of having a baby with Down syndrome; at age 30, a 1-in-1,000 chance; at age 35, a 1-in-400 chance; at age 40, a 1-in-100 chance; and at 45, a 1-in-30 chance."3

Multiplying the conception rate times the miscarriage rate times the birth defect rates should yield a rough likelihood of a healthy birth:

30-year-olds: .91 x .85 x .999 = 77%
35-year-olds: .84 x .80 x .9975 = 67%
40-year-olds: .64 x .55 x .99 = 35%
Multiplying the final figure by itself yields rough likelihoods of additional children:

30-year-olds: 1 child 77%; 2 children 60%; 3 children 45%
35-year-olds: 1 child 67%; 2 children 45%; 3 children 30%
40-year-olds: 1 child 35%; 2 children 12%; 3 children 4%


Both women and men have hormonal cycles which determine both when a woman can achieve pregnancy and when a man is most fertile. The female cycle is approximately twenty-eight days long, but the male cycle is variable. Women ovulate at about the fourteenth day of their cycle, this obviously being the most fertile time for females. Men can ejaculate and produce sperm at any time of the month, but their libido dips occasionally, which scientists guess is in relation to their internal cycle. During the fourteenth week of fetal growth, a women’s eggs (or ova) form in her ovaries, where they will remain until puberty. At puberty, the eggs will eventually start to mature one-by-one. At ovulation, the egg bursts from the ovary sometimes causing a small, sharp pain called mittelschmerz. If the egg is not fertilized by the male’s sperm, the egg will break down within twenty-four hours into its components (mostly protein) and be reabsorbed by the body.


Male Fertility After 35
Fertility clinics generally recommend that men get their sperm frozen before 35, if they want to have children later. Men's sperm quality usually deteriorates after that age, although some men continue to produce healthy sperm long after 40.

HOPE THIS HELPS!

Answer 6

Not true at all! Fertility decreases with age... from now till your mid 30s your in a great time of life for conceiving and carrying a child!

Answer 7

I had three of my four children between 21 and 26. I never heard that old wives tale before, and my last one at 31. Relax and it'll happen for you. Blessings!

Answer 8

She's got it backwards, that's when ladies are most fertile. I've read that 22 is the prime age health-wise for conceiving.

Answer 9

I belive it has to do with the ovulation period and stuff...im no girl but I know when your run out of eggs thats called menapause and then your not fertile.

Answer 10

That's one of the silliest things I've heard all day. If I were your friend I would carefully scrutinize any information coming from her mother.