Isn’t menopause the clock?
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misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months agoNot 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.
kiagam@lemmy.world 7 months ago
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Pretty sure when people use that term they’re not thinking “I can usually have a baby at 55”.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 7 months 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.