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Today couples are waiting longer and longer to have children, often until their early or mid-thirties. This delay can impact a couples efforts to begin a family because age is a significant factor in fertility.
Research published in the June 2002 journal of Human Reproduction showed that a woman's fertility can begin to decline much earlier than most of us had believed -as early as her late 20s. On the average a woman in her mid-30s or older will take longer to conceive than a younger woman. At age 30 to 35, fertility is 15 to 20 percent below maximum. From age 35 to 39, the decrease is 25 to 50 percent. From 40 to 45, the decrease is 50 to 95 percent
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