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Some women are able to be fertile until they are quite old, others are running out of usable eggs even though they are quite young. There are tests of the age of your ovaries, but then usually it's only fertility patients who get these tests; and while very interesting it doesn't typically change medical care to know whether you are still fertile unless you are seeking pregnancy. Those wondering how close to menopause you are, or even more interestingly, when to time having a baby. You might make a different decision if you know your ovaries are running out of eggs, rather than if you had plenty of eggs and could easily postpone while you work on that job change, that new marriage, or that bucket list. And that was one of the questions a recent Practice Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine opinion tried to answer for you: how to use tests of ovarian aging . Generally speaking, the most eggs we will ever have is during the 4th or 5th month of fetal life! ...