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First baby at 46 years old

Catherine McDiarmid-Watt | Wednesday, May 23, 2018 | 0 comments

Got married for the first time 43 years old, we starting TTC [trying to conceive] immediately.

After 12 months I went for help, and had two rounds of IVF [in vitro fertilization] last year.

First we got three eggs, all fertilized but BFN [big fat negative]!

Started second round of IVF a month later, but I had a terrible response and converted to IUI [intrauterine insemination] - but still another BFN.

I was told my eggs were old and wrinkly at a review when I was then 45 years old.

So I was advised to go the donor egg route or try for our own miracle.

Had started doing Chinese herbs with acupuncture, and within three months had my first BFP [big fat positive] in January 2006 - but the baby only stayed for a few days.

Kept taking herbs, etc., doing yoga and Pilates - and I got my next BFP in March 2006 - I am currently 35+ weeks pregnant with my first baby.

I will be 46 years old on November 20th.

My precious little one is being induced at the end of the month.

It can happen - just keep tweaking your odds and it may be you!

TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:

Image: Infertility and Adoption: A Husband and Father's Perspective, by Roy Sokol. Publisher: Rosedog Pr (January 3, 2012)

Infertility and Adoption: A Husband and Father's Perspective
by Roy Sokol

-- Roy Sokol offers men a chance to be heard and women a rare opportunity to view the struggle with infertility from a male perspective.

Infertility and Adoption: A Husband and Father's Perspective brings to life the frustration, anger, humor, heartbreak, and sense of helplessness and a mental philosophy learned in Marine Corps training that helps in overcoming the psychological barriers.

While miracles in technology have brought joy to new families, those very advances have placed many couples into a spiraling cycle of hope and heartbreak.

One failed attempt may lead to another, but how do you give up when there is always another doctor, another procedure holding the possibility of your dream for a family?

Roy Sokol has captured the emotional turmoil he and his wife, Elizabeth, endured as they tried to conceive, the years their lives were put on hold, and the excruciating sense of loss and finally great happiness.

He writes too of the couple's journey through the bewildering world of adoption - a path to parenthood fraught with financial, legal, and emotional risks of its own.

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Category: 1st, 43, 44, 45, 46

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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