Dr. Lucky Sekhon

no you're too old like we can't do this but we have to think is there a reasonable chance looking at the combined age of both parents or the support system that this child can be raised to adulthood right because we don't want to set people up for situations because there's so much science can do now but should we be doing it right and we have to constantly ask ourselves those questions totally totally reasonable response yeah

I think it depends on where you're at.

So it's not a linear thing.

It's not like every year you lose X percent of eggs and your egg quality decreases by X percent.

The good news for someone who it sounds like she said she was in her 20s.

No, she said I'm still under 35, which I'm guessing between 30 and 35.

OK, fine.

When you're in your 20s and very early 30s, that if you're looking at it as like a line on a graph, it's kind of flat.

Yes, there's always a decrease in egg count and quality over time.

That's just a fact.

But it's a pretty gradual, slow decrease.

And then it speeds up as we approach our mid-30s.

So there's an uptick maybe at like 32, and then 33, and then even more so at 35.

And then it's like a sharper rise.

Remember we talked about the 25%, the 35%, the 50%, and then it goes to 70.

It's like things start to move along more quickly.

But it's not a fertility cliff.

It's a continuum.

And I think it's actually healthy to take a little bit of time between pregnancies.

This is something we don't talk about enough, the concept of a short inter-pregnancy interval.