Alcohol Abuse Advice

Is It Too Late To Have Your First Baby?

Many women have placed a greater importance on their career success, often postponing introducing a new baby to the family.  The longer a person waits, the more she’ll question if it’s too late to have her first baby.

Medical advancements have allowed women to give birth at a higher age while reducing some health concerns, but women still have to accept that their opportunity to become a new mother will always be limited.

Aging Reproductive System

The term “biological clock” is used in movies as a joke, but it’s based on a very real countdown representing the degradation of a woman’s reproductive system.  A female is born with all the eggs she’ll ever have available to reproduce, and cannot introduce new eggs into her system without medical intervention.  As time passes, her eggs will begin to degrade and lose quality.  By the time a woman reaches the age of forty her eggs are often very low in quality, which influences her ability to get pregnant and carry the baby to term.

Although a woman is still capable of producing a child beyond the age of forty, the likelihood of complications or birth defects increase significantly.  Men, in comparison, may develop a less efficient reproductive system but their ability to introduce new reproductive cells gives them the ability to have children at very advanced ages.

Are You Ready For Your First Baby?

Most women are aware of the complications of having a child beyond the age of forty, but are still unsure if they’re ready to have their first baby.  If you’re over the age of thirty-five, but still struggling to decide if it’s the best time you should still be implementing the recommended behavior that would allow you to have a baby.

Once you’re over thirty-five your opportunity to become a first time mother is dramatically reduced.  Should you realize that you are faced with infertility problems at this point it can severely limit, or even eliminate the possibility of having your first baby because of time restrictions.  Once infertility issues are detected, addressed, and eventually corrected it may be too late for you to conceive safely.

If you’re not one hundred percent sure you’re ready to have a baby, you still want to establish a positive baby making environment for when you are ready.  Avoid birth control that limits or influences your ability to produce eggs, and weed out negative behavior like alcohol consumption, smoking, and recreational drug use.