If you’re trying to start a family, or you hope to have children one day but you’re not currently in a position to do so, you’ve probably had people tell you that you need to start before you’re 35, because once you’re over that age you’ll seriously struggle.

We all know that younger women, as a whole, have an easier time getting pregnant and giving birth to healthy babies. But understanding why that’s the case is more complicated.

While right now we have no way of freezing the biological clock, modern technology has given us a type of “snooze button.”

You’ve probably heard the phrase “The clock is ticking…” so often that it’s nauseating – or at best ultra-cliché. But for women who have bearing children on their radar, the ‘ticking’ feeling can’t be just brushed off as a nothing.