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Just Luck Or Is It More Than That?

Catherine McDiarmid-Watt | Wednesday, April 04, 2018 | 0 comments

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Photo credit: Bed Head, by Andrew Bishop

I sometimes hear: Boy you were lucky to have a baby at your age.

Actually I agree to a point.

If you think about all the things that have to come together to get pregnant and carry a baby to term, there's a bit of luck no matter what your age.

Was it a surprise I got pregnant at the age of 44? Yes and no.

Yes, because I think everyone is surprised when they get pregnant.

No, because I didn't just get pregnant by accident.

I followed a systematic method of preparing my body and mind - I knew deep down I would succeed.

This Pregnancy Over 40 story was found on Infertility-fertility.blogspot.com
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Originally posted on Thursday, March 17, 2011

TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:

Image: But I Don't Feel Too Old to Be a Mommy!: The Complete Sourcebook for Starting (and Re-Starting) Motherhood Beyond 35 and After 40, by Doreen Nagle. Publisher: HCI (February 7, 2002)

But I Don't Feel Too Old to Be a Mommy! The Complete Sourcebook for Starting (and Re-Starting) Motherhood Beyond 35 and After 40
by Doreen Nagle

-- The first and only book to fully address the concerns of the ever-growing but greatly ignored audience of literate, educated women who have delayed motherhood.

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Category: Fertility, pregnancy, surprise pregnancy, Too Old

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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