Who are the ones that are built to have babies? If you put ideology aside, if you have to, biology says it is young women. Yep, your average 16, 17, 18 year old female is built to have babies and she is at an age where it is simple and usually quite successful. As these young women age their suitability for the task diminishes, not only physically, but emotionally as well.

These biological facts are completely out of kilter with our current lifestyle and expectations. Fortunately IVF goes a long way to addressing the short comings that older women typically experience in the pregnancy stakes.

Last year one in every nine Victorian women aged 30 to 34 gave birth to a child, making them almost the most fertile group of women in the Australia. What is more, one in every 17 women aged 35 to 39 gave birth, and so did one in every 93 women aged 40 to 44. These women are typically much more risk adverse that their younger compatriots. One has to wonder on the characteristics of the next generation of Australians given that they are being raised by these ageing mothers.

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