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decided to dig a bit deeper into this astonishing – and seemingly dubious – claim, by consulting reproduction experts.
My hope was to discover the fundamental limits to how many children a woman could ever naturally have. But along the way, I also discovered that if you take modern science into account, a woman could, in theory, become the mother to more children than we ever thought possible.
Well before menopause, though, women’s fertility plummets.
“The percentage chance of having a baby per cycle when a woman is 45 [years old] is about 1% per month,” says Valerie Baker, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Stanford School of Medicine.