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She is on 24-hour medication, has a feeding tube and weighs less than 20 pounds."All you see is the survival rates," Perillo said.

"If they're born at 28 weeks, 95 percent survive, what's the problem?

You don't realize what the survival is, how sick they are."Trying for motherhood There is a drawback to waiting.

Fertility declines as women reach their 30s, making it more difficult to conceive.Many women are not aware of that, said Merry-K.

Moos, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina and a nurse practitioner."If I have a female patient who is 34, I will ask her what her reproductive plans are and when she plans on having children, if she does," Moos said.

"I feel I must tell her about the risks of delaying childbirth."Some women turn to fertility treatments, like in vitro fertilization, a process in which an embryo - usually more than one - is implanted in the uterus.Since 1981, more than 114,000 American babies have been born this way - just under 1 percent of all births, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.Delaware has a higher rate, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

From 2001 to 2002, about 155 babies were conceived through fertility treatments ...

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