Such heartening news will, of course, offer little consolation to the thousands of fortysomething women who face the agony and heartbreak of discovering they may have left it too late.

• 如此的消息令人鼓舞，给成千上万四十岁左右的妇女带来了不小的安慰，她们原以为自己生育已经太晚而苦恼心碎。