Millions of women are being told when to get pregnant based on statistics from a time before electricity, antibiotics, or fertility treatment.
Article: "How Long Can You Wait to Have a Baby?":
"Deep anxiety about the ability to have children later in life plagues many women. But the decline in fertility over the course of a woman’s 30s has been oversold. Here’s what the statistics really tell us—and what they don’t."
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/how-long-can-you-wait-to-have-a-baby/309374/