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I Used an Egg Donor

Catherine McDiarmid-Watt | Wednesday, August 12, 2009 | 1 comments

I Used an Egg Donor In every fertility book I've read—and I've read plenty—there's a final chapter called "Other Paths to Parenthood" or "There's More Than One Road to Motherhood" or something similar.

These chapters talk about egg donation and adoption, about grieving the loss of your fertility and accepting a different path. When you're starting fertility treatment, these are the chapters you avoid. You think they're for other people — women who began trying to conceive at age 42 (Hey, what did they expect?) or who lost an ovary to cancer (Unfortunate, but at least they have options).

You suspect it would be awful to be in their shoes, but you barely give the scenario a passing thought. Given all the high-tech procedures you've heard of — IVF, ICSI, PGD — you're confident that something will work for you. Maybe not on the first try, but eventually.

Read more: http://www.fitpregnancy.com/yourpregnancy/fertility_conception/i-used-an-egg-donor-40722747.html

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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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1 comments

zara says:

12 August 2009 at 18:03

I'm 30something and very glad to hear that at 40something pregnancy is still possible. I have hope.

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