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misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Not disagreeing with your point, but women can have children until menopause. It gets riskier and harder but not as much as most people commonly believe. “Biological clock” is a largely made up concept.

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kiagam@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Isn’t menopause the clock?

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- misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Pretty sure when people use that term they’re not thinking “I can usually have a baby at 55”.
  
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squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The biological clock exists, and it is real. But it ends at a time where no reasonable person should seriously consider having a first child.

For most women menopause starts around 45 and the last period happens around 49-55. That’s the hard limit.

Between 30-45 having kids is most often possible, though it’s getting more difficult and the chance for things like trisomy 21 is increasing exponentially with increasing age.

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