Science finally admits that it’s a myth that we fall off a fertility cliff at 35 Arwa Mahdawi
You might want to adjust your biological clock © Photograph: sot/Getty Images Women in the 30s have now been granted another couple of years before being considered ‘geriatric mothers’ by doctors.
Good news, ladies! We’ve officially been granted two more years of useful life. According to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the reproductive years for women in the United States increased from age 35 to 37.1. The study looked at 60-year trends in reproductive life spans and found that the average of menopause had gone up, while the average of the first period had gone down.
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Science finally admits that it s a myth that we fall off a fertility cliff at 35
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Going out, meeting people, dating it was pretty nonexistent, says Hanley, a vice president at Ketchum, a New York-based communications consultancy firm. We kind of missed a full year of it and we re still getting older.
Hanley had been thinking about freezing her eggs for a couple of years. Then the pandemic hit. Working remotely gave her the flexibility to undergo an intensive 11-day treatment cycle from the comfort of her home in November. And moving in with family for a few months helped her save up for the procedure.
Hanley isn t alone. Demand has soared during the pandemic, with egg freezing up 20 to 50 percent year over year at several Chicago-area clinics. The growth is particularly noteworthy given that many fertility treatment centers stopped seeing new patients last April and May as COVID-19 spread.