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FERTILE AFTER 40? YOU BET

Catherine McDiarmid-Watt | Thursday, August 09, 2007 | 0 comments

Do you laugh in the face of danger? Throw caution to the wind?
If you're sexually active and still having natural menstrual cycles, you may get more than you bargained for - pregnancy.

So, when is it safe to put up the protection?

Pregnancy is certainly possible in the decade before menopause. In fact, 60 percent to 70 percent of sexually active 40-year-old women will eventually conceive unless they use some method of contraception. By 45, about 10 percent to 15 percent of women are still fertile.

Full article: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-19321310.html

Category: Fertility

About Catherine: I am mom to three grown sons, two grandchildren and two rescue dogs. After years of raising my boys as a single mom, I remarried a wonderful man who had never had a child of his own. Unexpectedly, I found myself pregnant at 49!
Sadly we lost that precious baby at 8 weeks, and decided to try again. Five more losses, turned down for donor egg, foster care and adoption due to my age and losses - we have accepted that there will be no more babies in our house.

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