SEARCH RESULTS Sort by : Article Name Oldest Article Newest Article Votes Rating  Conceiving After Age 35 More and more women are choosing to wait until their 30s or later to have a baby for the first time. About 20 percent wait until after age 35. However, the longer a woman waits, her fecund ability (ability to conceive) becomes less. By the time a woman is 40, her chances of becoming pregnant drop to 5 percent. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health, “about one third of couples in which the woman is over 35 have fertility problems.”... Category Pregnancy & Neonatal Visitor Rating (0)