This varies from patient-to-patient. Your age is a great predictor of the number of eggs that you have. Generally speaking, the older you are, the fewer eggs remain. At birth, a baby girl has 2 million eggs. 400,000 eggs remain at puberty, 100,000 remain by age 30, and by age 45 or 50, that number usually drops to 0. This is all-natural and is associated with increased rates of embryo abnormalities, miscarriage, and infertility. One test that can tell you where you stand is an AMH blood test, which gives an accurate count of your remaining egg supply.
Whether you want to get pregnant now or wait, it’s a good idea to know where your fertility levels stand. Data definitively shows that egg quantity and egg quality begin to gradually decrease after age thirty. Yet it’s also important to know that everyone is different. We see women who experience infertility in their twenties, as well as women who are incredibly fertile in their late thirties.