{"id":58393,"date":"2025-07-02T17:15:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T17:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inser.com.co\/blog\/when-is-it-too-late-to-have-a-child\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T17:15:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T17:15:57","slug":"when-is-it-too-late-to-have-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inser.com.co\/en\/when-is-it-too-late-to-have-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"When is it too late to have a child?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Too late is when you never think about it biologically.
\nHowever, it could be established as an extreme reproductive age at 50 years.<\/h3>\n

The biological<\/strong> and physiological limitations to human reproduction that are determined in women by the wear and tear and programmed death of the ovaries<\/strong>, do not necessarily agree with social limitations.<\/p>\n

While this is true, today women have and are able to have children at later ages<\/a><\/strong>. Social factors such as: education, job performance, second unions, job promotion, determine that women seek fertility at later ages.
\nIf we add to this the increase in life expectancy over the<\/strong> last 30 years, it is easy to find women aged 42 to -44 who come to our clinic<\/a> for the first time asking for help. <\/p>\n

If we biologically and physiologically define 35 years as the age that marks the beginning of a decline in reproductive capacity<\/strong> and 40 years as an age at which both infertility and treatment for it are marked by low success rates<\/strong> , what could be established as a social limitation that a society determines when a woman is too old to look for children?<\/p>\n

Human Reproduction<\/strong>, one of the most important fertility journals published by the European Society of Human Reproduction, published a study carried out in 25 European countries<\/a>. The survey was composed of 21,909 women and 21,239 men between the ages of 15 and 85, for which they were asked several questions, one of them was: when did they think it was too late to have a child. <\/p>\n

As we mentioned initially, one of the substantial changes at the reproductive level is the increase in the age<\/a> of women when looking for and having a child. In the United States, by the 1980s, 1.6% of births were born to women over 40 years of <\/strong>age and this increased to 3.0% by 2006, doubling the number of women who have children after the age of 40.
\nDespite this increase, there are still few births in women over 40 years of age.<\/strong> The reason: biologically it is known that 15-20% of women aged 40-42 will be infertile only because of the age factor, 54% will be infertile at 45 years of age and 96% at 47-48 years of age, the negative effect of age is clear. However, why is this group of 40-44 year olds not having children?:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Because he can’t; because he doesn’t want to,<\/strong> and that feeling of “not wanting” is motivated by what people will say? This is where the concept of social limit plays such an important role in decision-making.
\nMaking an estimate of how many children would be born if women aged 40-44 decided to have them is 1.1 child per woman. This figure is not negligible. Continuing then with the European study: They found that for the European population to have a child after the age of 41 in women and 47 in men is already “Too late<\/strong>“.
\nIf we were to transfer these results to our Latin American Population, surely these age limits would change <\/strong>and the age of 38-39 years for women and 45 years for men would be socially considered as late ages to have children. <\/p>\n

Finally, I invite all women, especially those who are between 38-42 years old, to be proactive and determined with the aim of becoming mothers<\/strong>, to convince themselves that even though they are limit ages at a biological level, they really have important opportunities to become mothers and as I began this writing, it is too late if I never propose or consider it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Too late is when you never think about it biologically.
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