Expecting baby #4 at 49
I am just a couple months shy of being 49 years old and have been making my empty nest plans with excitement.
Then I recently found out I am expecting baby #4 on my 27-year-old's birthday.
My youngest is almost 16 years old, learning to drive and full of teenage attitude!!
I should be the poster Mom for poor family planning.
I had babies when I was 22 years old, 23 years old, then again at 33 years old, and now again at 49 years old!
When I went to the doctor five years ago and asked for a tubal ligation, he told me I had less than a 1% chance of getting pregnant at my age.
Only people who bought donor eggs got pregnant in their 40s,
was his remark.
I had my doubts about his advice, and continued birth control until just a few months ago, thinking if it was 1% five years ago, surely it was zero now?
Wrong!!
TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:
| Surprise Child |
by Leslie Leyland Fields
-- Unplanned pregnancies happen to women in every season of life: the newly married, the never-married, the empty-nester, the teenager, the overworked mother, the career woman.
Yet we rarely talk about how lonely and confusing this experience can be.
In Surprise Child, Leslie Leyland Fields, who experienced two unplanned pregnancies in her forties, lyrically weaves her own story with the stories of other women who understand the isolation you face as expectations and plans are turned upside down to make room for a child.
Each year, more than three million women discover themselves pregnant – at a hard time, the wrong time, at a difficult place in their lives. I am one of those women...
Together, these women walk with you month-by-month through the physical and emotional stages of pregnancy, voicing with startling honesty their own anxieties and struggles.
Here you will find the companionship and hope you need to journey toward a new life.
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Thank you for sharing your story. It gives us all so much hope. The doctors are trained to take all hope away from us so we won't be disappointed in THEM. Kind of self centered of them. There are so many stories out there. And life is so much sweeter when we have faith and hope!