Here is an assertion with which you will be familiar. After 30, women’s fertility falls drastically. Their chances of conceiving naturally plummet, and they are left relying on IVF or adoption, or – worst of all – consigned to a childless life. These lonely women sit around their laughterless homes, pining for the burbling affection of the babies they denied themselves, and thinking: why did nobody tell me?
Those were the presumptions underpinning a widely read story in the Mail on Sunday, headlined NHS chief warns women not to wait until 30 to have baby. In the piece, consultant gynaecologist Professor Geeta Nargund – who is not, as far as I can tell, an NHS chief at all, but that’s by the by – warned younger women that if they didn’t get on with it, they could face “shock and agony”, “devastation and regret”, as well as placing a “costly and largely unnecessary burden on the NHS”. Those in the target demographic could be forgiven, reading these ominous words, for apologising profusely to society at large and immediately collaring a passing stranger for a bit of unprotected sex. The clock, after all, is ticking.
Related: All this fertility paranoia does women no good | Barbara Ellen
The implication is that if men haven’t made their mind up by their 40s they can always start again with a younger model
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