For various reasons, including access to birth control, more career and educational opportunities, and economic concerns, more women in the United States are delaying childbearing.

Many women who try to have a baby in their mid- and late thirties or sometimes even early forties have no problem getting pregnant. Yet fertility does decline as we age, and many other women struggle to get pregnant or are unable to get pregnant or carry a pregnancy to term.

This reality can put us in a bind: We may … More