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Does the ‘fertility cliff’ really hit at 35?
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The idea that the chances of getting pregnant plummet at 35 is widespread, but it is not totally true.
ILLUSTRATION: MARIA MEDEM/NYTIMES
Dani Blum
NEW YORK – One number is inescapable for women who want children: 35.
Give birth at that age or past it, and doctors will say you are at “advanced maternal age”. That term is the newer, softer version of an older designation: a “geriatric pregnancy”.
