TTC at 35,

[Now_serving_number4]

If DH and I still want to I plan on TTC when I am 35 ( 3 years from now). I have always conceived on first trys. Have /are any of you in that age range have difficulty TTC but never had problems before? If so do you think it is due to your age ?

[Elizabethdaisy]

not sure but good luck!

[mommyof2sons]

I conceived my son last year at the age of 35 on one of the first tries :hugegrin:

[kohlby]

I've been pg 6 times and it's never taken me more than 4 cycles. I'll be 35 in July. However, I recently discovered I have both a clotting disorder and insulin resistance, which will complicate things more as I get older.

[CathyB]

You might wanna post this on the debate board. I wouldn't have seen it expect that right now it is showing on the main forum page.

Maybe it is a bit of a stretch to say I am hyperfertile, but I do believe that I get pregnant very easily. DD1 and DD2 are from my X, and DD1 took about 2 months to conceive and DD2 was conceived on the first and only try during July 03.

I am now remarried and much older (I was 26 and 31 with dd1 and 2). Part of the reason that I am even pregnant right now is because we were pretty sure it would take us a while TC. I'm 35 and DH had some kind of operation as a child (somewhat minor; I forget the name of it). He was even thinking he was sterile.

Even at this age and with a different guy (how romantic, right?), I was able to get pregnant on the second month of no protection and infrequent sex (working 8 jobs between us usually puts a damper on things in the winter months).

I do offer this advice with a grain of salt, though. I still haven't been to the doc. to make sure everything is okay.

[Mary_Mary]

Truthfully...if there's no compelling reason why you need to wait to TTC I would NOT wait.

Fertility does statistically start dropping off sharply at 35 and the miscarriage rate rises.

I've had fertility issues for years, but it wasn't until I was over 35 that I had actual TROUBLE getting pregnant. (Prior to that I just needed supplemental progesterone and I got pregnant.)

In the past four and a half years (from the time I was 37) I got pregnant four times. I miscarried three of those pregnancies and also had a chemical pregnancy to boot. At no time during that period were we using birth control. Unless you count the month you go on birth control pills as part of the in vitro fertilization process. During IVF (when I was 42) we got seven eggs, four fertilized, we transferred four good quality embryos and we were blessed with ONE baby.

I realize that I'm significantly older than you are at this point, but my serious fertility problems started just after 35. For some people serious problems set in sooner. I know several people who were unable to have more kids because they went through premature menopause.

I'm not trying to be alarmist, but personally I would NOT wait to TTC. I wish that I'd been able to convey to my husband the very real issues associated with waiting to TTC and that we'd gotten married MUCH sooner (we dated for 4 1/2 years) and that we hadn't waited more than a couple of months AFTER we got married to TTC.

If you wait 3 more years to TTC you will be missing out on 36 of the better eggs you have of the 84 eggs you'll (hopefully) have a chance with before turning 40.

[cream_city]

I'm turning 35 in a few days, and I know it definitely sent off alarm bells -- this is our first month TTC. Actually, we tried once last year, but because of changing jobs, etc. we knew we'd have to wait one more year. We'd been planning to wait until I was 36, but in the last couple of months I had the feeling it might be a mistake to wait.

The 84 eggs is really depressing...

I will say that fertility is a continuum, though. Some people have trouble starting at 34, others have no trouble into their late thirties or even early forties. So if waiting three years is what feels right for you, I would try not to panic over the number 35. (Not that I was able to avoid that!)