52y patient 12w pregnant with own eggs
I have just got back from my two weekly trip to my Chinese doctor in London.
She ONLY deals with fertility issues.
Her whole practice is geared to helping patients to try to get pregnant.
One of her nurses told me they currently have a 52 year old patient, who was 12 weeks pregnant.
I said oh must be DE [donor egg],
but they assured me NO, it was not and it was her own eggs!
Amazing!
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I have a family member who is a medical doctor for Indian Health Service.
She serves indigent Native American women.
I can tell you these women are not spending 30K to do donor egg.
Nor are they traveling to Spain and the Ukraine for bargain basement DE cycles (something they still wouldn't be able to afford!)
She said it is not uncommon at all to have women between 44 and 52 years old, delivering a baby.
Of course, they are not the majority; the majority of women who deliver babies are in their twenties.
Certainly fertility declines with age, and no one is arguing that.
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I am sorry I disagree it is uncommon for women between the ages of 44-52 to deliver healthy children without the aid of donor egg.
Science doesn't lie.
Less than 5% of women in that age bracket have children with their own eggs.
lol, she kinda did say it wasn't the majority
How many even try to have a baby at a certain age ?
Surely a fertility specialist also knows more than you ?