Check your family tree for inspiration
I don't know if everyone has the ability to do this, but it made me feel a lot better last night.
I had read in an infertility book some time ago that all this stuff about it being hard to get pregnant in our 40’s just isn't automatically true.
That we should look into our family history, and see there that women routinely had babies into their 40s in the past.
So I got out the family tree book last night, for my dad's side, which goes back to the 1700s... Guess what, ALL of the women I am descended from in his family had their last baby in their 40's, average age being 43/44 years old.
There are about 20 women listed, and only one had her last child in her 30's. And I seriously doubt if any of them went to REs [reproductive endocrinologist] or took Clomid... It really cheered me up.
Plus my husband was right there telling me about his side of the family, women who had their last child at 45-53 years old...!
Anyway, check out your family tree for inspiration.
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TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:
What I Thought I Knew: A Memoirby Alice Eve Cohen
--A personal and medical odyssey beyond anything most women would believe possible
At age forty-four, Alice Eve Cohen was happy for the first time in years.
After a difficult divorce, she was engaged to an inspiring man, joyfully raising her adopted daughter, and her career was blossoming. Alice tells her fiancé that she's never been happier. And then the stomach pains begin.
In her unflinchingly honest and ruefully witty voice, Alice nimbly carries us through her metamorphosis from a woman who has come to terms with infertility to one who struggles to love a heartbeat found in her womb - six months into a high-risk pregnancy.
What I Thought I Knew is a page-turner filled with vivid characters, humor, and many surprises and twists of fate.
With the suspense of a thriller and the intimacy of a diary, Cohen describes her unexpected journey through doubt, a broken medical system, and the hotly contested terrain of motherhood and family in today's society.
Timely and compelling, What I Thought I Knew will capture readers of memoirs such as Eat, Pray, Love; The Glass Castle; and A Three Dog Life.
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