There are many reasons why women require the assistance of an egg donor in order to conceive a child, but the most common reason is the woman’s age. Most recipients of egg donation are between age 43 and 47. A woman is born with about 500,000 eggs and they begin to age the moment she is born. A woman’s fertility begins to decline dramatically around age 35, and continues to decline steeply until it ends completely several years prior to menopause which occurs at age 50 to 55. The decline in fertility is not because she is not running out of eggs but rather because her eggs are aging.
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