A Glance at the Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Take a Look at Your Biological Clock
Hormones Can Tell What Time It Is
Today’s Day 3 FSH Test
Other Hormone Tests to Check Your Clock
If You Are 30 or Older and Want Children

Chapter 2. Old before your time
Young at Heart
Myths, Misconceptions, Misinformation
The Reproductive Reality
It’s All About Your Ovaries: Egg Quantity vs. Egg Quality
Eggs in Waiting
Other Undeniable Evidence
New Discovery Tinkers With Biological Clock

Chapter 3. Backward Biology
Millennium Women With a Stone Age Clock
The Antiquated Clock
Is the Slowing Clock an Adaptation?
The Slowing Clock as a Non-Adaptive Artifact of Aging
Why Can’t They All Just Get Along?
Nature Is Robbing Women of Nurture
How To Fix It

Chapter 4. 10 Steps That Will Increase Your Fertility Potential
Uncertain Expectations
The Basics
The Ten Steps
Review: How To Calculate Your Clock

Chapter 5. The “ART’s”
The Age of ART
Getting Started
Ready, Set, Go!
Basic Treatment Options for Older Patients and Poor Responders
Denied Treatment, Failed Treatment, or You’ve Had Enough

Chapter 6. Adjust Your Thinking
Hear This…
Miracle Babies?
When Publicity and Personal Lives Clash
Cracking the Donor Egg Code
Voices From the Field

Chapter 7. Not Necessarily Science Fiction
Science in the Spotlight
The Final Frontier
Why Tinker With Mother Nature?
Science of the Deep Freeze
Other Eggs-tension Research
Stem cells: the Seeds to Grow Eggs and Sperm
Cloning
Threats to Progress
The Future of The Biological Clock

Chapter 8. Golden Mothering
Nothing New
Older Parents On The Rise
Behind the Trend
Pushing the Limits
Older Moms Tell Their Stories
Society’s Dichotomous Comfort Level
Setting Limits

Final Word