Why the gap in fertility knowledge? Yes, the celebrity baby boom is partly to blame, but some also point to the sex education curriculum in our public schools. These programs focus primarily on how to avoid pregnancy and STDs, making it seem easy to get pregnant as long as you have unprotected sex. There is no discussion of age. And, there is no mention that infertility is a major problem in the United States 12 percent of childbearing aged women are infertile. This equals 7.3 million women.
Sadly, most infertile women don’t visit a fertility clinic until they’re past 40, when their chances of conceiving using their own eggs are less than 5 percent.
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