At the age of 45 you will have approximately:

Based on your age, your ovarian reserve has decreased from 360,000 at puberty to about 10,000.

By age 45 most women have only about 1% left of their original ovarian reserve. However the quality of those eggs has also decreased, which affects your chances of a successful pregnancy and live birth.

At birth most women have approximately 590,000 eggs, which falls to about 360,000 by puberty.

Every woman is born with all the eggs she will ever have, and as you age, the number of eggs in your ovaries decreases.

Ovarian reserve is a term used to describe the number of eggs left in a woman’s ovaries. A woman’s ovarian reserve shrinks by over a thousand eggs every month. While not directly linked to egg quality, it does correlate with your likelihood of falling pregnant.

Please note that these estimates are based on a prediction model and may not apply to all women.

Your chance of a successful IVF at 45 years old

At this stage your chance of a successful IVF using your own eggs is very low, and your best chance of success is with a donor egg or your own eggs frozen in your 20s.

IVF does help improve chances of pregnancy across the age ranges, however, age is still a large factor in determining success, both in general terms of getting pregnant, and in terms of the age of the eggs being used.

As a woman gets older, the chance of her getting pregnant with her own eggs decreases, and using frozen eggs from when she was younger, or younger donor eggs may be more successful.