Pregnancy risks increase with age but there’s no reason to believe risks “jump”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/12/03/pregnancy-over-35-study-finds-better-prenatal-care-better-outcomes/8681149002/

by acpk • 5 years ago

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xyzzy21• 5 years ago

What kind of double-speak is this?! Risk and No Risk = Logically null nonsense!

BTW after 30, the chances of getting pregnant at all drops ~50%

After 40, it's 25% and drops to essentially 0% by 50.

Not a medical risk, or risk at all, unless having a kid was a priority. Seems to be intentionally obfuscating the definition of risk.

Also if you have sex for six months without protection in your 20s, and you don't get pregnant , you HAVE a fertility problem: in that age range, the odds should have reached 100% pregnant.

MandieD• 5 years ago

This article was about risks to mothers and fetuses/babies once the pregnancy was started, and how the “35 is teh old” means that moms slightly over that get way more care than those slightly under, ironically resulting in better outcomes for women just over 35 than those just under, not about the risks of not becoming pregnant at all.

And that too isn’t always quite so simple…

Me at 29: just married, hope the baby comes soon!

Me at 30: tracking cycle and temperature, a few days' disappointments

Me at 31: ectopic, thankful that methotrexate exists and my Bavarian town's hospital didn’t live up to its conspicuously Catholic name

Me at 33: there is no reason this shouldn’t be working for us, and my mother died of estrogen-positive breast cancer, so I’m not about to mess with IVF

Me at 38: this is just not going to happen, but we have wonderful nieces and nephews, and La Vida DINK is pretty awesome, actually

Me at 39: looks like things are shutting down, hello menopause…

Me at 40: Happy accident!

Nothing quite like being able to snicker as the junior doctor in his 20s nattered on about the benefits of natural birth for third and fourth pregnancies after presenting the c-section order from my gyno (who has her only in her late 30s), and who hopefully got a good talking-to from his boss, who had her kid at 41 and ended up doing my c-section.

MyHypatia• 5 years ago

Your numbers of likelihood of pregnancy after 30 are extremely inaccurate.

aged 19 to 26 – 92% will conceive after 1 year and 98% after 2 years

aged 35 to 39 – 82% will conceive after 1 year and 90% after 2 years.

Source: https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/trying-for-a-baby/how-long-it-t...

Pregnancy risks increase with age but there’s no reason to believe risks “jump”

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