Babylune » male-fertility http://www.blisstree.com/babylune Adventures in post-partum recovery. Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:14:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 News About Fatherhood http://www.blisstree.com/babylune/news-about-fatherhood/ http://www.blisstree.com/babylune/news-about-fatherhood/#comments Tue, 06 Jun 2006 07:44:00 +0000 kate baggott http://www.babylune.com/news-about-fatherhood/ Post from: Babylune

]]> When I was growing up, a process I did not complete until about the age of 26 due to chronic immaturity, the prominent view among my straight friends and I was that men were far more interested in casual sex rather than commmitted relationships. We thought fatherhood and family life were things they wanted to avoid at all costs.
It took a long time for those prejudices to fade, even when we started to date men in their mid-30s and the tone of our relationships started to change. It turns out that the change may have been dictated not by our own maturity as women, but by the MALE biological clock.

That’s according to a The Globe and Mail report on a research study conducted by Andrew Wyrobek of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Brenda Eskenazi of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health.

  • Women’s biological time clock has long been known, with older women having an increased risk of miscarriage and of producing children with genetic defects such as Down Syndrome.
  • “Our research suggests that men, too, have a biological time clock — only it is different,” Dr. Eskenazi said in a statement. “Men seem to have a gradual rather than an abrupt change in fertility and in the potential ability to produce viable, healthy offspring.”
  • Both men and women have been postponing parenthood in recent years. Since 1980, the researchers said, birth rates have increased 40 per cent for men aged 35 to 49, while there has been a decline in births involving men under 30.

What do you think? When you and your partner decided to have children, did you notice his desire to become a father had become more pronounced around a certain age?

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]]> http://www.blisstree.com/babylune/news-about-fatherhood/feed/ 1 Daddy’s Biological Clock http://www.blisstree.com/babylune/daddys-biological-clock/ http://www.blisstree.com/babylune/daddys-biological-clock/#comments Wed, 03 May 2006 07:42:38 +0000 kate baggott http://www.babylune.com/daddys-biological-clock/ Post from: Babylune

]]> Plan to start a family later in life?

Better start looking for a younger man. According to a new study reported in today’s Guardian, men should plan for fatherhood by forty.

  • In the latest research, IVF experts studied the often neglected question of whether a man’s age affects the chances of a couple having children. They concluded that while the age of 35 should be considered the “amber light” in a woman’s reproductive life, men reach a similar milestone at 40.
  • The researchers, from fertility clinics across France, examined rates of successful pregnancies in 1,938 couples from 59 clinics. The study showed that a woman younger than 30 was 25% less likely to conceive if her male partner was 40 or older than if he was of similar age. And if the woman was 35 to 37, she was twice as likely not to conceive as to have a successful pregnancy if her partner was 40 or older.

In my mind’s eye, I just saw the distinguished gentleman with a head full of salt and pepper hair falling from fashion forever.

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