Fertility In Your 20S 30S 40S And Beyond
“Women are born with all the eggs they will ever have—about 1 to 2 million,” says Jane Frederik, MD, medical director of HRC Fertility of Newport Beach, CA. “Only about 400,000 of the eggs remain at the start of menstruation, which occurs around age 12." Frederik adds that a person’s amount of eggs continues to decrease as they age. “By the late 30s and 40s, the [egg] supply is low,” she says....