Seeds of Love: A Reproductive Documentary

Seeds of Love: A Reproductive Documentary examines the emotionally and financially taxing decision for men and women to seek fertility treatment to start a family after 30 years old.

While there are numerous reasons why men and women are waiting until their 30s or 40s to start a family, a growing number of them are finding it difficult conceiving. The proportion of the female population that is infertile increases with age. Fertility drops dramatically around the age of 35. Fecundity, or the ability to conceive, naturally decreases over time as part of the normal aging process.

About one third of couples in which the woman is over 35 have fertility problems. Even though fertility is less reliable for women of older ages, approximately 20% of women in the United States have their first child at or after age 35. Age-related fertility decline is not only a female factor. It has been discovered that while only 8 percent of men younger than 25 fail to impregnate their partner after a year of trying, that number grows to 15 percent after age 35.

Recently, there has been a paradigm shift in reproductive medicine, because more women and men are waiting to start families. As more people are seeking advanced reproductive techniques, such as Intrauterine insemination, In vitro fertilization or Zygote intrafallopian transfer, to assist in achieving pregnancy, the ceiling of reproduction has been lifted slightly such that almost any healthy woman even after 30 years old can successfully mother a child. The risks are high and take a toll mentally and physically.

Seeds of Love will intertwine personal video journals of men and women undertaking advanced reproduction with archival footage and interviews of couples, single women, family, friends, medical professionals, and psychiatrists.