Egg Quality in women

A woman’s age is the most accurate test of egg quality, because egg quality decreases as the woman approaches menopause. An important change in egg quality is the frequency of genetic abnormalities which make the ageing woman less likely to become pregnant and more likely to have miscarriages. As a woman gets older, more and more of her eggs have either too few or too many chromosomes. That means that if fertilisation occurs, the embryo also will have too many or too few chromosomes.