She was 44y when she had her daughter
I was talking to my ob/gyn earlier in the week. I was lamenting the fact that I'm not yet pregnant and scared I never will be. I told her I see women on the street who look to be my age who are pregnant, but I can't be sure. She said to me, "Ask them! I have so many patients in their early forties who are pregnant".
So yesterday I was in a meeting at work with a vendor who was new to me, but not the others in the meeting. This woman, Jackie, turned to a co-worker and said, "Can you believe tomorrow is my daughter's first birthday?" I looked at her and thought, she could be 36 or she could be 42, who knows?
After the meeting I pulled her aside and asked her how old she was when she had her daughter. She was 44. She went on to tell me her whole story. She had her first child at 37 and then tried unsuccessfully for years to get pregnant again. She tired injectibles, IUI and IVF. She got pregnant three times but miscarried three times.
Finally her husband convinced her to give up. She said she'd become a wreck because of the stress of TTC. She agreed and then a few months later AF was late. You know the rest of the story.
Equally inspiring was that she told me she knows lots of women who had babies in their 40s. She's met them because they're the mothers of her 7 year old's classmates.
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