At what age does it become a bit more difficult to conceive? I'm 20, i don't want a baby just yet, but reading the "trying to conceive" questions kinda makes me worry about when i will try to, it seems like its really difficult, and you have to track your ovulation days and so on and so on...i see so many girls my age popping up pregnant like crazy! and i doubt they had to track this and that and whatever... Sooo, I was just wondering if its always so difficult to get pregnant?
2007-08-27 10:06:56 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Trying to Conceive
Based on your age, the chance of getting pregnant each cycle IF sex is timed as close to ovulation as possible is:
20-25% if you are in your early 20s
20% if you are in your late 20s
10% if you are in your early 30s
8% if you are in your late 30s
It isn't always difficult to get pregnant, but infertility affects about 6.1 million couples in the United States--that's about 10% of all women in their child-bearing years.
2007-08-27 10:13:01 · answer #1 · answered by jilldaniel_wv 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No it's not difficult for everyone to conceive. I'm 20 and my husband 26, we conceived on our first month of trying and it unfortunately ended in miscarriage. All we did was track my cervical mucous (really easy) and try to have sex every other day. When your young it does tend to be a bit easier. It really doesn't start to become a challenge until you've reach that 40 year mark.
2007-08-27 10:51:19 · answer #2 · answered by cotton~candy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the typical "fertile years" happen in your 20s, but of course, everyone's different. I've heard that it gets harder after 35, but lots of people have kids well into their 40s. My best friend had her first baby at 41 and will be trying for their second one later this year.
When I was your age I didn't want a baby either, and now I will be trying for my first next summer, and I will be 33. I'm not worried and I'm glad I waited because I have never been more prepared for my future life change than right now. I've never been healthier, nor mentally and economically prepared than right now.
2007-08-27 11:04:10 · answer #3 · answered by Peace 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Problems with conception are clearly increasing at 26 with the advance of endometriosis and uterine infections as time passes. However, most women don't typically have a problem until after 35.
It seems like there is an infertility epidemic, but that's because those who are having problems conceiving are very vocal while those who have no problems have moved on to parenting issues. However, if you happen to be around a number of professional women, who typically wait to have children, you are likely to meet more who have problems (like I have).
2007-08-27 10:35:14 · answer #4 · answered by CarbonDated 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You don't have to track your ovulation days if you don't want to. You can just do away w/ birth control and have fun. I'll admit that I feel like my clock is starting to tick at 29...hopefully it won't be an issue. But I will say this. Enjoy your twenties. Especially the first half of them before you decide to have a baby.
2007-08-27 10:19:29 · answer #5 · answered by Jennifer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it's in a woman's late 20's that her biological clock begins to tick a little louder. By 35 the chances are going to drop, but until menopause you can conceive.
Basically--you have no reason to worry. You're 20--you have at LEAST 15 years of child bearing in you.
2007-08-27 10:11:04 · answer #6 · answered by FaZizzle 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm TTC my first, and I'm 25. I'm in my first real cycle actually trying, and I'm freaked out and paranoid because it seems like everyone on the web is having trouble getting pregnant. I actually called my doctor about it, and she said that it's not that most people have trouble, it's just that most people don't "plan" their first pregnancy, it usually is unplanned, or a "whoops." I wish you the best of luck when you start TTC-ing and everyone else who already is, I'm sending baby dust and prayers your way!!!
2007-08-27 10:23:30 · answer #7 · answered by KS5957 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I say that when a women hits her mid 30s it's harder or at least that's what i've heard. If I was you I wouldn't be to out there cause you never kno what might happen. These days anything and everything is bad for you. So i'd be careful.
2007-08-27 10:17:08 · answer #8 · answered by taste_like_cherries5 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on how long you wait...you don't want to wait to long because the older you are the harder its going to be. I was 17 when i got pregnant and it wouldn't take much for me to get there again except for a husband.
2007-08-27 10:12:55 · answer #9 · answered by CrazyGrl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well any women can get pregnant at any age. Most of it depends on how fertile you are. But i GUESS if I had to say it would have to be harder when you are older, like in your thirtys for fourtys. But who in the hell would want a baby at that age. I am glad I had them young.
2007-08-27 10:11:48 · answer #10 · answered by tiffy 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋