title: [Declining fertility with age].
abstract: The will to be a mother at a late age has become a real problem of society for many reasons, first and foremost because of efficient birth control, long studies and second matrimonies. In front of these still young women but quite "old" for maternity, practitioners specialized in medically assisted procreation (MAP) are often helpless, specially because most of the patients think that the MAP will be able to cure the natural decline of fertility. However, MAP's procedures cannot correct the decrease of pregnancies' rates and the increase of spontaneous miscarriages linked with the age. One of the first aims of consulting-physicians should be to give patients proper advice about fertility decline, so that women could run their life, aware of these facts.
authors.affiliation: Service de gynécologie-obstétrique et médecine de la reproduction, CHU d'Amiens, 80054 Amiens. lourdel.emmanuelle@chu-amiens.fr
authors.forename: Emmanuelle
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lourdel
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Merviel
authors.forename: Rosalie
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cabry-Goubet
authors.forename: Mélanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brzakowski
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D043762:Reproductive Behavior; D027724:Reproductive Techniques, Assisted