Daphne Zuniga Quotes

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

For lots of reasons, including working crazy hours and having a job that required significant travel, I did not start trying to have a baby until I was in my late 30s. My experience is hardly unique. I am one of countless women who almost waited too long without realizing it.

A friend of mine told me she's going to freeze her eggs, and I thought, 'Well, I also don't want to be a 55-year-old first time mother,' so you kind of just have to go with what happens.

Well, I guess, but I just feel so strong. Actually, it was probably when I was 50 that we were trying to - to get pregnant, and I thought that I could do it then.

I'm not going to have a baby until I'm around 30-something.

I see lots of women having beautiful children later in life. And, if not, just freeze your eggs!

Unfortunately, with fertility, time is not your friend. People are waiting longer to get married and longer to have kids, and so many more people are experiencing fertility issues. But no one ever talks about it.

You either have a baby, want a baby, or don't want a baby, but you don't nothing a baby if you're in your 30s or 40s.

It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.

Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.

A lot of people have been asking me questions about IVF and surrogacy, and I'm glad that I can be a mouthpiece to that.

There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.

So many women waited until later to get married and then even later after they got married to have children. And then they have problems, and it takes them five, six, seven years to have children.

I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.

I was 38 years old when we started trying to have a baby. I thought it would be no problem, but the 3 years it took us was the most difficult period of my life.

I'd do anything to have more kids. But that's probably not gonna happen now.

I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.

I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it.

I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.

I don't think a lot of women know how much their chances of having a child diminish as they age.

Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.

I was happy to carry on without children because I was completely immersed in my work and my career. I only heard the clock ticking in my late 30s, and when my mother Marion died the year I turned 40 it hit me with such a force that we ended up having IVF, which turned out to be unsuccessful.

Giving birth to triplets at the age of forty-three is no walk in the park, but I had little choice. I got married at the young age of forty, and both my husband, Shirish, and I were keen to start a family soon.

If you want to become a mother, you can. I promise. It may not happen the way you think, but it's possible. It just takes a combination of a little planning and a lot of living your life.

Just when my biological clock started ticking, I found out it was going to be virtually impossible. And it was very hard.