Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 4 , Pages 1036-1042 , October 2008

Women's awareness and perceptions of delay in childbearing

Received 26 February 2007 ,Revised 13 July 2007 ,Accepted 18 July 2007.

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 Supported by the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.

 Presented at Fertility 2007, the Meeting of the British Fertility Society, York, United Kingdom, April 17, 2007.

PII: S0015-0282(07)02990-1

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.07.1338

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 4 , Pages 1036-1042 , October 2008

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