• April 26, 2024

Currently, due to different work commitments or the lack of a stable partner, more and more women decide to wait to start a family and have children. Think about conceive a child after 40 years it is something more and more common in women.

According to researchers of the University of Washington in St. Louis, United States, after analyzing the data of 76 thousand pregnant women, they concluded that those who were over 35 years old were not at greater risk of having children with malformations (in comparison with younger).

Late pregnancy is not fatal

According to data from National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) In Mexico, fertility by age groups shows that from 1976 to 2010, women in the group between 20 and 24 years old are the ones with the highest fertility rate.

Meanwhile, according to the same institution, from the age of 35, fertility begins to decrease significantly, so that women over 40 years old only contribute 2.1% of registered births, at least for the year 2099.

Despite this information, research shows that the late pregnancy , developed under the right conditions, will come to a satisfactory term with a perfectly healthy baby.

Preparing to get pregnant is a careful process, the first recommendation that experts in gynecology make is that they stop using immediately the pills or contraceptive methods that were followed until the moment of the decision.

Once the body begins to detoxify, the U. S. Public Health Service recommend consuming 400 micrograms of folic acid per day from one month before becoming pregnant and during the first three months after becoming pregnant.

If you are one of the women who like to smoke or consume alcohol, you have to be perfectly aware that it will be the first habit you should leave, as this not only contributes to the difficulty of getting pregnant, but is a strong cause of the spontaneous abortion.

According to the doctors Paloma de la Torre Y Graciela Olivares , gynecologist and obstetrician respectively Angeles del Pedregal Hospital , so that there is a pregnancy "first you have to hit the days of ovulation , which occur halfway through the cycle, that is to say two weeks after we rule, you will have between 4 and 6 fertile days ".

Having sex on those days of increased fertility will give you an increased chance of getting pregnant.

If the pregnancy does not occur naturally, there is no mention of a lost case, in Mexico there is a great variety of private clinics in the Assisted reproduction that perform treatments of low complexity as well as techniques of Scheduled intercourse wave artificial insemination , as well as high complexity as the in vitro fertilization .

First-time moms over 40 have a 48% chance of giving birth by cesarean section, according to the fertility specialist, Sherman Silber , director of St. Louis Infertility Center .

If you decided to conceive a child after age 40, you should go to a specialist who evaluated the risks, the medical conditions you present and the follow-up throughout the process.

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