Late Ovulation = Poor Quality Egg?

My cycles were always all over the place. Long cycles, short cycles. Trying to get pregnant with all that unpredictability was unnerving. I got pregnant with my daughter on a long cycle, and she was perfectly healthy. Try not to worry and for goodness sake, stay off the internet!

Uh--women are born with all of the eggs they'll ever ovulate. All of your eggs are the same age. We don't "make" new eggs every month.
That's why "advanced maternal age" is an issue. The older you are, the older all of your eggs are.

step away from the google.
we have very limited control over the internal workings of our bodies. unless you're in there ferreting around with a flashlight, you really don't know at what point this particular egg was released from the tubes and what shape it's in. for the most part our bodies function pretty amazingly well, and the eggs that are fertilized are the best ones to BE fertilized.
and when they're not, we flush 'em out.
not always, of course. but there's still (thankfully) a huge element of luck in the business of creating humans.
'old' eggs are more about the age of the woman than the time of their release during the cycle.
trust your body. relax, enjoy the sex, be happy if you get pregnant, and if you miscarry, allow yourself to mourn but accept that your body is doing what's designed to do.
khairete
S.

Nope. I always ovulated after cd 25. When I got pregnant with my daughter, I didn't ovulate until cd 48. They were all healthy pregnancies and children.

Congratulations! I have to admit,!i am so glad in the old days we did not have all these tests that create do much anxiety. After second period was missed, we wen to doctor. Pregnant. Yay. Went home and enjoyed our pregnancies. Times have changed. Don't get me wrong, knowledge is a good thing but sometimes causes too much stress! I would just enjoy your positive test results!

Dr. Google strikes again. I think if I were you I'd stop looking for problems on the internet and start thinking positively. And talk to your doctor.

I don't know.
Maybe - but maybe not.
So many things can affect your cycle, stress, diet, exercise, environment, etc.
Whose to say that THIS time it was because THIS egg was inferior?
You got a positive pregnancy test!
The stress of TTC is over for now.
Time to relax a bit and just be happy!

When you ovulate in your cycle doesn't matter. That whole 28 day cycle with you ovulating on day 14 is nothing but an estimate. It's based on averages and guesses. Not every women has a cycle that follows that pattern. This is also why your due date once you are pregnant is estimated and not set in stone.
You got a positive on your test. You need to relax, get off the internet which is full of mis-information and worse case scenario, and see how things go. There is absolutely no way of guessing or anything else. What will happen will happen. Odds are high that everything is just fine. People get pregnant all the time with all sorts of cycles and all sorts of ovulation times.

I never heard of this. As Sadie H. says, the "age" of eggs is more due to the age of the woman, rather than the age within any menstrual cycle. As far as I know, the early ovulation MAY (emphasis on MAY) influence how much hormone is then produced by in the luteal phase of the egg follicle, which affects implantation quality, but it has nothing to do with the egg itself. Even so, you have the opposite - a longer development of the follicle - which in turn probably has to do with the amount of FSH in the beginning. Once you ovulate, the egg is the same, right? You aren't making new eggs month after month.

I don't know anyone who has faced the issue you mention, and I don't see anything anywhere on line from a reputable medical source that says this. There are conversational blogs that talk about it, but it's mostly people asking the question you are asking, not anyone with any medical info.

I have not heard of this. I do not know it to make a difference and many women have no clue as to when they ovulated. Most doctors have to use the last date of our mental cycle (in the USA at least) to predict our due date.

Could you include an article or website that mentions this? Could you be reading about Advanced Maternal Age and getting is confused with late ovulation. Maybe the people writing about it are using the wrong term, since you seem to be clearly wondering about ovulating later in your cycle vs. being over a certain age.

Congratulations!

I think the confusion with the late ovulation - poor quality egg thing - is because they say eggs 'mature' when they are enlarged, getting ready to be released. They aren't getting older, but they 'mature' (compared to undeveloped ones). That's from hormones - some people's eggs are ready day 12, yours day 25. From what I understand (check this with your doctor) your eggs are not sitting there from day 12 waiting to be released 13 days later. So they are not getting old or less viable. I think it's just your body and hormones take 25 days to get that egg ready to be released.

So I think it's more a misconception, but definitely talk to your doctor, I'm sure they can answer that better and ease your concerns :)

Good luck :)

I'm not sure about my first, but I know I ovulated super late with my second pregnancy. I know for a fact because I know the exact date of conception and my doctor kept insisting I was wrong based on my LMP! Neither pregnancy or child had/have health issues :)