Many women become pregnant in the first time
at the age of 40. Although we cannot deny that the rate of becoming pregnant at
this age is lower than the popular age of becoming pregnant a lot.
When you want to become pregnant at this
age, you can follow some following small notes:
The chance of becoming mother at the age of 40
After
45 years old, it’s difficult for you to become pregnant.
When you are 40 years old, the natural
chance of becoming pregnant is only 40% and this rate will reduce according to
your age that is more and more increasing. After 45 years old, it’s difficult
for you to become pregnant because before the period of menopause about 15
years, the amount of ovum will begin to reduce remarkably.
However, your reproductive ability doesn’t
completely depend on the amount of ovum, it also depends on the quality of
ovum.
After 40 years, your ovum can have the
problem about structure or chromosome. This thing will increase the risk of
miscarriage and inborn defect for fetus.
How to cure and support with medicine when you become
pregnant at the age of 40
At present, IVF method (Insemination Vitro
Fertilizing), and ICSI are 2 methods that are used most to support for giving
birth at the age after 40 years old. Using this method, among 10 cases, there
is one case that is successful to pregnant women at the age of 40. In some big
hospitals, this rate can increase.
You can think about using the source of
donating ovum to become pregnant. In reality, there is over a half of babies
that are born from fertilization in vitro for mothers that are over 40 years
old. All of them use the source of ovum that is donated.
Advantages and disadvantages of becoming pregnant at the
age of 40
Advantages
The biggest advantage of becoming pregnant
at the age of 40 is that you are really stable about psychology and finance.
You have time to experience life, so you will have the wise decision in
bringing up children.
At this age, profession will bring you a
lot of certain relationships and your income is also higher. After giving
birth, you can come back with your work quickly without affecting advancing in
work.
When you are 40 years old, you will pay
attention to your demand less. You will pay attention to the happiness when
they love their children. Especially, at this age, if you become pregnant
naturally, the ability of having twins pregnancy is very high. Therefore, when
you are in the period that is near the age of menopause, the hormones will operate
stronger to fall ovum and it will lead to the thing that 2 ova fall at the same
time. If those 2 ova are fertilized, they will be grown in your uterus and as a
result, it will create the twins that have different ova.
When
you are 40 years old, you will pay attention to the happiness when you love
your children more.
Disadvantages
If you have problem with health, doctors
will arrange you to the group of pregnant women that has the high risk. This
thing means that you need to receive the best caring from doctor and your
family. When you become pregnant lately, the complications will increase
double: pregnancy diabetes, pre-eclampsia, high blood pressure, forward
placenta, placental abruption. When you meet these risks, having cesarean is
the best method for you. When you give birth, you can also meet the dangerous
complications such as having difficulty in giving birth, premature birth or
babies have light weight.
Testing in pregnancy is very important to
you because when you give birth lately, the rate of catching Down syndrome will
be very high. 200 babies born by babies that are over 40 years old, there is
one child that can catch this syndrome. In addition, the change of chromosomes
at this age also increases the risk of miscarriage. A half of women that
becomes pregnant at the age of 42 has miscarriage and this number increases to
¾ at the age of 45.
Things that you should do when you become pregnant at the
age of 40
You should let yourselves have the best
chance to have a normal pregnancy and a healthy baby. Changing lifestyle is the
first thing that you should do, including giving up cigarette, wine, beer and
keeping your body balanced and healthy.
When
you want to become pregnant at the age of 40, you should give up cigarette,
wine, beer…
If you have sexual relations about 2-3
times / week without using methods to protect and you don’t become pregnant,
you should go to see doctor to find out the reason why you cannot become
pregnant. Some diseases that can make you have difficulty in becoming pregnant:
uneven menstruation Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) and other diseases that
relate to the genital tract.
If you really want to have children at this
age, the thing that you need to do is that you meet doctor to receive the
supporting about medicine (if possible) or the consulting to help you have a
stable pregnancy and a healthy baby.
