A recent research has reported that women aged over 35-years are more likely to face trouble in conceiving a child, when compared to women in their mid-20s. The study was carried out by a team of experts at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, who stated that older women were six-times more likely to face difficulties in giving birth to a child.

It was also found that 30% women trying to conceive in their mid-30s ended up trying for more than a year before they got pregnant. In contrast, merely five percent women trying get pregnant in their mid-20s took more than a year to knock up an egg.

Apart from these problems, older women were found to be at a greater risk of suffering a miscarriage, stillbirth, pre-eclampsia and ectopic pregnancy. The need of a caesarean also increased with an increase in age among such females.

Meanwhile, babies born to older women were also more likely to be born premature, and were more prone various defects in their genes.

It has been opined by scientists involved in the study that women should be provided with such vital information. They have further stated that the ideal age for women to bear a child was from 20 to 35-years of age.