Sorry, that’s wrong. Spontaneous pregnancies (i.e. pregnant the usual way, without medical assistance) happen quite regularly after the age of 45.
From: Successful spontaneous pregnancies in women older than 45 years. The study involvedtwo hundred nine women who conceived spontaneously and had their most recent delivery after the age of 45 years. Uncommon but hardly rare. Much more common in grand multips (women who had 6 or more children).
P.S. I am a doctor (albeit a male one), and delivered one woman who was 46 at the time of birth. It was quite the surprise baby, and the woman’s 22 year old daughter wasn’t quite sure what to make of her newborn sister.
Do you always spread playground-level misinformation on the internet, or just on life-changingly important topics? Until menopause is complete, pregnancy is *always *a possibility.
It’s not only wrong, it’s so wrong that I think most of us thought he was making some kind of joke.
That’s what I’m talking about, baby! Well, not the amphibian females spontaneously changing to male, but otherwise, just like that!
JG is so sexy there…
In so many ways. (Not that anyone else has to agree.)
ROWerrrrrr.
43 and still using the Pill here. Doc checks my lipids and blood pressure and I’ve never smoked, so she says I’m fine as long as all those stay normal and can stay on the Pill. Seems I’m starting to have perimenopausal symptoms, and staying on the Pill may also help keep things in check so I plan to keep with it. I dread, really, really dread the idea of hot flashes, so if the Pill helps with that shit at ALL, I’m definitely staying on it as long as possible.
You are definitely still fertile as long as you are having periods and can’t consider yourself in menopause until no period or anything like spotting has happened for a full year. Even then, not sure I’d consider things “safe” for another while after that!
Vasectomy. I highly recommend it if you’re in a long term committed relationship. It’s so much easier for either of us v the alternatives. Ironically, now that I’m peri menopausal, my Gyno is advising that I go back on The Pill to manage the hot flashes and irregular and heavy periods.
I think you came the closest to my age - I had my tubal at 22, but I was unmarried & childless. I was lucky enough to find a doctor that believed me when I said I never want kids. We did have a problem with his usual hospital though; he had to do the procedure at a different one. In 38 years I’ve never regretted it.
I did the birth control pill when we needed something reversible - it was only fair that my husband got the dental floss, jack daniels and rusty razorblade treatment when we were done.
39 with a tubal. I wasn’t taking any more chances when I decided I was done. My Dr. assured me that nothing was getting through ever again. 
I was a copper IUD baby (I’m lucky there isn’t a spiral shaped birthmark in my butt cheek), and my family has a long history of blood clotting disorders, so getting something physically done was the best option.
I’ll be 50 this November. I have not bled in three years. My transition was pretty smooth. I started getting irregular periods, then they became very light and short in duration. At the end I got two or three that felt like I was bleeding to death and then, that was it!!
El fin! ¡No más! I couldn’t be more thrilled about it. 
Sadly, abstinence seems to be working for me.
Any recollection of how long that took? If I could think things will be over in another 4 years, I’ll take it. Symptoms started for me last summer. I’m really not looking forward to a decade of this, even without the hot flashes (thank Og! But if they start later on…), I’m having mood swing and irregularity issues even with the Pill.
Likewise, 45 in a couple of weeks. I’ve toyed with the idea of trying something else, but nothing else looks like less of a PITA (and surgery doesn’t thrill me). So path of least resistance it is.
~raises hand~ Another woman here who had my one and only child at age 46. Conceived naturally after decades of infertility.
I’m on my 3rd year of the Mirena IUD. Like others, it completely eliminated my period and migraines. I’ve got 2 years left on it. Not sure what I’ll do then.