Dr Natalie Crawford
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first heard Nov 2024
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Age does matter and makes it harder to get pregnant as we get older.
But we still see the same trend, meaning those first few months that you're trying, you have the highest rates and then it starts to drop, meaning less and less get pregnant the longer you've been trying.
And even when you're young, if you've been trying for a year, your odds of getting pregnant naturally are going to drop.
Let's say you're 30 and you're starting for the first time.
Your odds of getting pregnant naturally would be about 20% per month.
And if you've been trying for a year, those odds are now four to 5% per month.
And you've been trying for two years, two to 3%.
Importantly, two to 3%, four to 5%, those numbers aren't zero, but they're substantially lower, meaning something is more likely to go on.
But we've seen rates of infertility are rising.
Those are old stats back from when I first started training a decade ago.
The rate of infertility we used to say is one out of eight, which is what that population data gave us.
And now it's one out of six.
And if you're in the United States and you're trying to get pregnant for the first time, it's going to be one out of five couples will experience infertility.
So 20%.
That's a high number.
If we couple that with the fact that many women are waiting longer to get pregnant,
It is harder to get pregnant as you get older.
Yeah, we see less teen pregnancies, more women getting pregnant older.
That's really reflective of societal change.
But it does not make sense to say, I'm not even going to do testing on you.
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