, and I also knew I had no interest in having back-to-back babies. Since I was twenty-eight, I figured I had seven years to have two more kids, because “everyone knows” you should have all of your kids before thirty-five, right?Lots of us have that one old, meddling relative who swears we won’t have the energy to “chase babies” if we don’t get them all popped out in our twenties and early thirties.
And screw anyone who makes you feel like you can’t have a healthy, happy pregnancy in your late thirties. As anyone who has hit the milestone will attest, thirty-five isn’t as old as it sounds when you’re twenty-five.It’s still so young. A lot of us barely know what we want to be when we grow up by the time we are thirty-five. Many of us have to work hard from the end of high school well into our thirties to establish the career we dreamed about when we were younger.
I (somewhat) unexpectedly got pregnant with twins just before turning 37 after having my first baby at age 23 and then being unable to get and stay pregnant since. Fertility is a mysterious beast.
I had mine at 43 💪 its never too late ...
No one warned me about the hyperfecundity of advanced maternal age, signed the woman who gave it one last try at 40 and came up pregnant with twins.
Absolutely not! And with egg preservation and egg and embryo adoption, the possibilities are more plentiful than ever. There are trade-offs, but it’s a choice every person and couple makes for themselves- raison jokes won’t help the already hard journey!
But the complications 😖😖😖
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