Women should be getting pregnant shortly after they graduate from university when they are most fertile, according to an expert. Getting pregnant at 25 was reportedly best because this is the age of optimum fertility.
"It may not be true that women should be having babies at the time of the GCSEs [General Certificate of Secondary Education] but they shouldn't leave it much later than graduation," Dr. Gillian Lockwood was quoted by Daily Mail as saying. Lockwood is the medical director of the Midland Fertility Clinic.
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IVF After 40 Has Small Success
Evening Standard reported that Dr. Lockwood cautioned women who try getting pregnant using in vitro fertilization (IVF) at 40. "The bleak reality is that the chance of IVF working with your own eggs once you are 40 is absolutely abysmal and in what other branches of medicine would we let, yet alone encourage, patients to pay for an elective operation with a less than five percent chance of working."
Lockwood said that women can be youthful on the outside. However, the body is not fooled as women's ovaries know their real biological age. Lockwood said that Botox cannot be given to ovaries.
Delayed Pregnancies And Grandparents
If women choose to get pregnant when they are older, Lockwood said the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren are affected, as per The Telegraph. This is because the grandparents would be too weak and too old to have a "wonderful and significant bond."
"One of the most beautiful social relationships we have is between grandparents and grandchildren, but that only works if you've got grandparents who are fit and active," said Lockwood. Lockwood was speaking at the Cheltenham Science Festival.
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