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my husband and i married when i was 31 and he was 35 after dating for 6 months and being engaged for 10 months... we tried to start our family when i was 33... after a year with no pregnancy, we went to a fertility clinic... before we began tests and all, we decided we would not do the IVF if it came up that that would be our only option... tests found nothing "wrong" with either one of us... we did a couple rounds of Artificial Insemination--and i had to take fertility drugs for that... after two rounds, we decided to drop the whole thing... it was not for us... the drugs gave me hot flashes and other weird feelings... as Christians, we accepted that this was God's gift to us--and we decided to adopt... we have two beautiful boys who are actually half-brothers... when you go the fertility treatment route, that becomes your whole life... everything you do centers around those treatments... highs and lows... hopes and disappointments... i am so glad that it took just a few months to realize that this was not for us... (the likelihood of the Artificial Insemination working for us was low since i did not take the highest dosage of drugs because we were not willing to abort any embryos that might have come to be...)