The latest headlines about fertility have predictably caused outrage. We need to ask why women feel they have to ‘delay’. Having a baby should be an achievable goal at any age
One thing’s for certain: media coverage of age and infertility is not much of an aphrodisiac. Unless you like having enforced reproductive sex at gunpoint to the ticking sound of a clock – which might be the average Boden catalogue subscriber’s idea of a turn-on (guilty), but is perhaps not so attractive to a single lady in her late 20s who is a long way off finding someone with whom she might want to have a takeaway, let alone a baby.
Screaming headlines from the weekend – “NHS Chief: Don’t Wait Until 30 to Have Baby” – are designed to evoke two responses: panic or anger. There’s no need for either, but there is something interesting going on here. Consultant gynaecologist Professor Geeta Nargund was trying to point out – not unreasonably – that the cost to the NHS of IVF treatments is rising steeply. Age-based infertility (rather than infertility that would exist regardless of age) is on the increase because it’s more socially acceptable, and indeed more possible, to delay motherhood than it was 30 years ago. This isn’t scaremongering, it is fact.
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