Technically, it is possible to be pregnant from the age when girls begin to ovulate. And, this begins at the age of 11. Also, women can attain pregnancy even at 45-50 years of age. Then, why is it said that the best age for any woman to get pregnant is 25-35 years, especially when it is known that women in the age group of 18-25 are at the best of their fertility? There are many reasons for the same.

The first and foremost reason why most of women prefer to get married and be pregnant at about 25 years is the career consciousness. The women who are career conscious will do pregnancy planning late till the time they feel secure career wise.

Secondly, the women look for financial security. They are quite aware of the fact that raising a child is not easy as it requires financial support as well. So, they put off having a child till the time they are quite sure about their financial ability to meet the child’s requirement.

Fourthly, prescribing age-limits for getting pregnant may not be good in all cases. Some women may not be fertile even in 18-25 group and others might still be fertile till a later age.

Fifthly, some of the married women might not be emotionally stable after marriage. So, even if they are quite capable of getting pregnant at 18-25 years, they might be more mature to be emotionally stable at a later age.

Finally and most importantly, the body’s ability to cope up with the biological demands of pregnancy is better in this period than the earlier or later age groups. Though it might be technically possible to get pregnant earlier as well as later than the 25-35 year period, there are greater chances of having complications.

So, the basic parameters that define the ideal age for getting pregnant are: financial security, emotional stability and physical preparedness of the body to handle this phase. Breaking down the years into the days, women can also determine the best time (in terms of days) to get pregnant by determining their menstrual cycle, checking for the cervical mucus formation and monitoring the body basal temperature. Intercourse done 14 days prior to the beginning of menstrual cycle has greater chances of resulting in pregnancy. Similarly, raise in the basal temperature by about one degree would be a positive indicator for the best pregnancy time.

The childbirth labor during pregnancy is what many of the expecting mothers fear the most. In earlier times, when the medical science was not much developed, the women had no option but to bear the pain. At best, what the women could do was to prepare the body and mind during this phase to endure the labor pain. Also, there were not considerable research inputs to know how to manage the labor stages better.

With the advancement in medical research, there was a time when doctors began using anesthesia to put the mothers to sleep even as they delivered the babies. However, the advocates of the natural ways to deliver the babies always preferred the non-medicated ways. They were of the belief that medicated ways could be harmful to baby’s health and considered that the prevailing research methodology is not advanced enough to establish this fact. Their efforts at promoting natural birth techniques in the decades of sixties and seventies were concentrated on teaching the breathing and relaxation exercises to reduce the pain of childbirth labor.

These days the medical science is far more advanced. Women can easily give birth to baby with little or no pain. Women can make a choice between the medicated or non-medicated methods of delivery. Medicated methods would invariably involve administration of small amounts of anesthesia which will prevent the pain and will allow you keep awake during the whole stages of labor permitting you to experience the same as well. Analgesics and tranquilizers are also used to reduce the pain. The non-medication methods make use of massage, acupuncture, hypnosis, distraction, reflexology, hydro therapy and others. In fact, doctors do tell some useful exercises that shall be done during the whole period of pregnancy so that there is less pain and the body is made strong enough for this final stage of pregnancy.

You shall always consult your doctor who is regularly monitoring your and baby health to know what is the ideal approach towards the childbirth labor pain. Due to their experience, they will be able to tell whether you would be able to handle the rigors of pain or not. Also, they can devise the best alternative methods to follow. If the women are able to handle pregnancy naturally, they can get the real experience of child birth. But nowadays, many women prefer the easy way of taking some medical help to escape the pain. After all, when technology and medical science is here to help without any adverse effects for the baby or the mother, then why not use it?