Fertility Basics
Ready for a crash course on the female and male reproductive systems? In this section we also dispel common fertility myths and find out how to tell when you're most likely to conceive.
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Any sixth grader can tell you how babies are made. But it's one thing to be fresh out of biology class and thinking you know it all, and quite another to be a grownup trying to create a new life.
For as long as people have been having children, they've been trying to understand the mystery of fertility.
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Women's fertility begins to decline slightly by age 27. Many women are surprised to find that it dips significantly after age 35; by age 40, 50 percent of a woman's eggs are abnormal and the chances of conceiving without a donor egg drop to 7.8 percent.
Ovulation is the fertile time of your menstrual cycle, which occurs when a mature egg—or ovum—is released from one of your ovaries.
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