This Is How Hard It Is To Get Pregnant At Every Age

When you round the base to 30 as a woman in American society, you immediately become painfully aware of the ticking clock on your fertility—we’ve found even strangers will weigh in with unsolicited statistics about how likely we are to get pregnant now that we’re over the hill. Thirty-five is often cited as the age at which conception apparently becomes impossible and/or dangerous, but how much truth is there to this deadline? We did some investigating into the actual facts of fertility to help you understand your odds of conceiving well past your 20s (as many, many women do).