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Ethical debate rages over how old is too old to become a mother

Catherine McDiarmid-Watt | Monday, January 15, 2018 | 0 comments

Image: Vicky Stikeman, 50, with daughters Clara, 8, and Coco 2

Photo credit: Pawael Dwulitt/Toronto Star

Like any excited and caring mom, Vicky Stikeman is engaged, playful and active with her two young girls.

Unlike most, she has already celebrated her 50th birthday.

Sometimes people think I'm crazy – sometimes I still think I'm crazy, Stikeman says with a chuckle.

A single, career-oriented woman since her 20s, Stikeman got on the fast-track to family life when she met her husband at 40, married at 41 then had her wedding night baby, Clara.

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TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:

Image: The Belated Baby: A Guide to Parenting After Infertility, by Kelly James-Enger and Jill S. Browning. Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing (May 1, 2008)

The Belated Baby: A Guide to Parenting After Infertility
by Kelly James-Enger and Jill S. Browning

-- Infertility is a mind-set and that every woman who experiences infertility is forever changed, even when she eventually has the child she yearned for.

When many women who have gone through fertility treatments describe their experience, they say it abused their soul.

The experience may have also hurt their relationship with their husband and sometimes permanently altered relationships with their extended families.

Studies show that even after the desperation of infertility subsides, emotional wounds still fester and an asterisk accompanies her bundle of joy.

Paperback: 242 pages
Click to order/for more info: The Belated Baby

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About Catherine: I am mom to three grown sons, two grandchildren and two rescue dogs. After years of raising my boys as a single mom, I remarried a wonderful man who had never had a child of his own. Unexpectedly, I found myself pregnant at 49!
Sadly we lost that precious baby at 8 weeks, and decided to try again. Five more losses, turned down for donor egg, foster care and adoption due to my age and losses - we have accepted that there will be no more babies in our house.

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