The economic crisis, job instability, the difficulty of buying a flat or finding a stable partner, the desire to squeeze youth and try to improve or promote jobs, among other things, are the most common reasons to delay the moment of having children
This social inertia, which seems quite logical in the times in which we live, clashes head-on, however, with mother nature, which seems to have foreseen that women are rather young mothers.
This is the conclusion they have reached in the Gynecology Unit of the Dexeus University Institute of Barcelona, where they have conducted a study that says that the age limit to get a pregnancy and an out-of-risk birth is 37 years old, either by natural conception, or by fertility treatments.
To do this study, up to 5,000 cycles of in vitro fertilization (IVF) have been analyzed, observing that as the years go by the follicle count decreases considerably. In addition, at the chromosomal level, the oocytes get worse, causing the quality of the embryos to decrease and consequently their viability.
Pedro Barri, head of the study says about it:
The influence that has the age is very important in matters that have to do with fertility, whether in natural conception, as through IVF ... many women think that, although they do not have children at ages more appropriate for fertility because they are working, they can have it later through IVF, for example with 45 years. That is not true and you have to let patients know.
From 37 years old also increases the rate of prenatal fetal death that is not associated with malformations. In short, from that age limit there are fewer pregnancies, there are more abortions and when the woman becomes pregnant there is a greater risk of fetal death, without being related to malformations.
I don't know what this data will look like, but the truth is that the age to have children seems to be limiting a lot. Young people have to wait for increasingly obvious reasons related to social instability, but if you wait too long, you run the risk of problems, not only during pregnancy and childbirth, but to get to conceive.
