A geriatric pregnancy is defined as one where the mother is 35 years old or older. Fertility decreases with age, meaning that a woman will be less easily able to become pregnant as the years go by.
Additionally, fertility treatments to help the process along become less effective once a woman reaches around 35 years old.
A healthy 30-year-old woman, for example, has about a 20 percent chance of getting pregnant each month. By the time she is 40 that percentage plummets to 5 percent.
These days, an estimated 20 percent of women hold off until after the age of 35 to have children, relishing their careers and other aspects of their lives before settling down and starting a family.
A significant shift in attitudes towards modern motherhood has made this procrastination much more common, resulting in higher numbers of geriatric pregnancies.
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