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An NHS fertility doctor has called on the Education Secretary to include fertility lessons in the national curriculum and for women to start trying for a baby before they are 30.

Dr Geeta Nargund, a consultant gynaecologist at St George’s Hospital in London, advised that women should begin trying for a baby before they are 30, as problems with pregnancy usually take 5 years to resolve.

Professor Allan Pacey, the outgoing chair of the British Fertility Society agreed with this view: "You need to be trying by 30 because if there is a problem and you need surgery, hormones or IVF, then you’ve got five years to sort it out," he said.

"If a woman starts trying at 35, doctors have got to sort it out when she is already on a slippery fertility slope."

Dr Nargund said: "Ideally, if a woman is ready for a child, she should start trying by the time she is 30. She should consider having a child early because as a woman gets older, her fertility declines sharply."

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