age for conception

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has just released 2009 statistics which reported on the changing age of Australian women who are giving birth. Some of the more interesting statistics which were reported are as follows: 13.7% of first time mothers are over the age of 35 years. Compared to the previous data which […]

Further to my blog “Pregnancy: how old is too old?” posted on 11thNovember, I would like to share the following story by Jared Yee published in Bioedge. Increasing numbers of older women in the UK are turning to IVF therapy. The number of women over the age of 40 receiving IVF in the UK has