But ultimately, says one fertility expert, “you can’t botox your ovaries”. “The problem we have is that women on the outside are shiny, young and youthful and on the inside their ovaries know exactly what it says on their birth certificate,” Dr Lockwood, speaking Gillian Lockwood, medical director of Midland Fertility Clinic, says that one consequence of women having apparently defeated the ravages of time is that they are tricking themselves into leaving it too late to have babies. Older women may not realise how just how low the chances of success with IVF could be Getty ImagesA middle-aged woman may be slim and attractive and have a beauty regimen that hides the fact she has passed 40.

Source: The Times June 12, 2016 23:08 UTC