"Alyssa Gold had planned on getting married by age  and having kids by age   but life worked out differently. Instead at age  she was single and successful and about to start an MBA program. But her dreams of having a family were real and she began to be concerned as she got older about her chances of having a baby. I knew starting a family was a few years off said Gold. I was very careerminded and very focused and had relationships throughout my s and early s but still wasnt in that forever relationship. Women are born with a finite number of eggs they start out with roughly one to two million in their ovaries. Once a woman hits puberty the number drops to  and by age  the amount decreases by  percent. In her mids Alyssa worried how many eggs she had left. Turns out theres a simple blood test that could tell her. For years its been a staple in fertility clinics its officially called the AntiMllerian hormone AMH test. Some doctors are now offering it as an option to healthy women to assess what they call their ovarian reserve. Its now being called the baby deadline test.  There are some young healthy women who are living their lives in shape and taking very good care of themselves who might not know that their reserve strength of their ovaries is lower than it should be. said Dr. Joshua Hurwitz a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist with Reproductive Medical Associates of Connecticut. Its a question of having the knowledge and awareness of keeping your options open. The test is a simple blood analysis that usually costs less than . It measures the amount of AMH circulating in a womens bloodstream. This hormone is released by follicles in the ovaries and predicts the amount of possible eggs a woman has. The higher the result the more eggs the lower the result the fewer eggs. The test doesnt measure the quality of the eggs and its not a guarantee of fertility. The test has traditionally been offered to women who are struggling to get pregnant and helps assess the possible next steps such as getting pregnant sooner or freezing eggs. For Alyssa Gold the AMH test was a wakeup call. At her regular gynecology visit Gold took the AMH test and received news she didnt wanted to hear but it helped her take the next right step for her. I took the AMH test and Im glad I did because the results were not what I was hoping them to be said Gold. My tests were really below normal and that was an indicator to me that I needed to move ahead with taking control of my fertility at that time and doing something which was egg freezing. Gold finished her graduate studies and soon after met her future husband. She is now happily married and at age  thinking about starting a family soon. Shes grateful to the Baby Deadline Test for giving her that option. Completely fortunate that I was able to get the information and make that decision that there is this medical technology out there to help me in that way said Gold. If I had waited until I met my husband and we were trying now to have a child it would be a very different story. Even the best AMH level in the world is not a guarantee for someone going forward or even right now but they are good indicators for fertility said Hurwitz. Theres no way you should lose hope theres so many things we can do these days and starting early enough we can use this information to keep options open no matter what the result is youre going to be okay."