Pregnancy Info HOME

Well you sound like you will make a great father. I can completely understand your desire to want to father your own child. At the age of 47 the chances of her conceiving naturally especially after a tubal are slim..but not impossible. My advice for you and her is to get specialist intervention immediately. As a women ages she loses about 35 eggs a day. About 1000 a month. As you may or may not now the egg quality and quant_ty of womens eggs drastically reduces after 35 and again after 40. The fact that she is in great shape is good. But a womens set number of eggs will run out. She may be only dealing with several thousand eggs at this point. But then again that would have to be determined by your doctor with egg retrieval or ultrasound. She would need bloodwork and a sonohysterogram to check the flow of her tubes after the reversal. As well as a slew of other tests. I think you both should not even chance the wait. Even a month is 1000 eggs down the drain. IF she does have any viable eggs left they should be extracted asap. Otherwise she could conceive with a donor egg. But that is just an option if her own eggs are non viable.She may need to go on several medicaltions to stimulate her eggs. IT could be a long and costly road..with no guarantee. But again it is not impossible just a little time consuming. Having you as such a loving wonderful husband sets the ground for what may be instore for you. Support and being on the same page for conceving is a great start . I truly wish you and your wife all the best. For the record my dh is 34 and I am 41 we have one child almost 2 years old and I have suffered 3 losses. I a currently ttc one more child. We are hoping it will work for me too. All the best. Let us know how you plan to proceed. :)

Just want to put a positive spin on the doom-and-gloom"statistics: if a woman can afford to lose 1000 eggs a month (and wouldn't you think that this process would be happening since puberty), they must be coming from a vast resource of zillion of eggs. A 1000 may be a tiny percentage of her egg supply. Just the same way people tend to focus on the 5- or 7% -percent chance of having a Down baby, disregarding the fact that that means 93-95% healthy chance. There are funky things happening to a woman with age, but it is very individual. One 47 year old woman runs 5 miles a day and feels very different from a TV-watching 47 year old woman. One woman stops menstruating at 33 and the other in her 60s. So it's hard to say unless you try. There are many stories of real women on Internet who gave births in their 40s 50s and 60s.

Yes many women do give birth at a late maternal age. Having fertility intervention can help speed things along if it is going to be at all possible at all. I hope a 47 turning 48 year old is the exception and she may be. I wish we all could conceive until we are 60 but this is just unrealistic. But for this couple ..I think acting quickly will speed along the process if it is going to happen. And for your info in the woods..there is nothing negative about my "spin" I am merely stating sad but true facts. If I did not know these stats I would just tell them to ttc and good luck. But it is good to know you can get help when you are of an advanced maternal age as I am and so is this women.