What Pregnancy After Infertility Feels Like
“Yes, as I write this… I am in fact, pregnant. Our donor egg IVF transfer was successful! Someone fucking pinch me. This Can. Not. Be. Real. Simply typing the “p word” feels so foreign to me. It feels extremely uncomfortable. It feels like a...
The Top 5 Thoughts of Women Pregnant After Age 35
The age at which women have their first child continues to increase. In fact, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the first birth rate for women aged 40-44 has doubled since 1990 and the rate for women age 35-39 has increased six-fold since the...
Pregnancy Past 40 on Al Jazeera “The Stream”
Deciding if, and when, to have a child is a very personal decision. Now, thanks to advances in reproductive medicine, that decision doesn’t always have to be restricted to the “ideal” child bearing years – either by parameters set up by science, or...