What are the risks of being pregnant over 35?

What are the risks of being pregnant over 35?

Jay Goldberg (Obstetrician/Gynecologist, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) gives expert video advice on: What are the risks of being pregnant over 35? and more...

Over 35, the risks of being pregnant do increase, but not drastically. With pregnancy over 35, typically we offer you a test. Those tests are invasive, and you choose between one or the other (if you so choose to do either). One of them called CVS (chorionic villus sampling), and the other is called an amnio (or amniocentesis). Those are invasive tests. You have to enter the uterine cavity to determine if the baby has a chromosomal problem. With pregnancy at over 35 years old, the risk of there being a chromosomal problem is higher than the risk of a complication from that test.