“Fertility issues can have a profound biopsychosocial impact on a woman’s life,” says Dr Tara Wyne, a clinical psychologist at The Lighthouse Arabia in Dubai. “Women often hold assumptions that if and when they want to conceive and start a family they will be able to do so at will. However, according to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, infertility affects almost 11 per cent of women and 9 per cent of men.”
While headlines are often made by older celebrity mothers giving birth, such as Halle Berry welcoming her second child at the age of 47 and Rachel Weisz at 48, Dr Dimitrios Kafetzis, Medical Director at Orchid Fertility in Dubai says medical advice on fertility and age has changed.