Does the Pill affect fertility?
No, the pill does not adversely affect fertility once you stop taking it. However, delaying childbirth by using the pill or any other birth control method can decrease fertility. On average, a couple in their 20s trying to get pregnant (having regular unprotected sex), will conceive in about 5 months. Eighty-six percent will conceive within a year. By age 35, only fifty-two percent will conceive in a year, and by 40 this is down to thirty-five percent. When a woman is over 45, her chance of conceiving after a year of regular, unprotected sex is less than five percent.
No, the pill does not adversely affect fertility once you stop taking it. However, delaying childbirth by using the pill or any other birth control method can decrease fertility. On average, a couple in their 20s trying to get pregnant (having regular unprotected sex), will conceive in about 5 months. Eighty-six percent will conceive within a year. By age 35, only fifty-two percent will conceive in a year, and by 40 this is down to thirty-five percent. When a woman is over 45, her chance of conceiving after a year of regular, unprotected sex is less than five percent.
