Age-Related Infertility Quotes

I never had a burning desire to have children. But then I met Nick, and I thought, 'This is the only person I'd do this with.' So we tried, but I was a little long in the tooth for that sort of thing. But we didn't turn it into a soap opera. We tried for about a year or so, and it didn't happen and took that to mean it wasn't meant to be.

Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!

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

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

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

Women right now kind of have this idea of success - putting your career first and then having kids. On one side, it's perfect and it's a great plan, but on the other side, they don't explain to you that after age 35, you start losing eggs.

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

After 40, your chances of getting pregnant are between two and eight percent, and in my particular case, they were less than five percent.

Why should I worry about the biological clock ticking? Saif is 10 years older. He should be worried.

The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if they can make women fertile after menopause.

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

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.

I don't know why this is, maybe because I am 33 or what, but I didn't think it would be that easy for me to get pregnant. But it was.

We have a generation of women who think that they can just have IVF, and everything will be fine. The odds are against you once you start having IVF, and the odds are against you over the age of 35. And to pretend that it's easy to have a baby in your 40s or 50s is - it's just selling women a false dream.

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story.

I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your kids by the time you're 12 or it's all over. Please.

Men want children later, but women can't rely on being able to. So I'm all for scientific advances and the help they can give people.