How far along are you?

[adgal]

Hi there!  I've been on this forum for 5 years, but have been a way for a bit, and I see a whole lot of new members.  Fantastic and welcome!!  Thought it might be fun to get to know each other a bit, so how about introducing yourself and telling your story.  This forum is open to all women who may be pregnant, trying to get pregnant or just looking for pregnancy information.  So don't worry if your here and not currently pregnant...I'm not..ha.  I'll go first.

My name is Amanda and I started trying to get pregnant when I was 37.  I had no problem conceiving, but did have a problem carrying full term. When I was 40, my dreams came true and I got pregnant with a sticky bean that I delivered just before I turned 41.  He just turned 3 last week, and is a healthy happy normal child.  My husband and I wanted a second, but again, I conceive easily, just can't seem to carry.  So we started looking into alternative options.  I have a fair amount of information on embryo donation if anyone is interested.  We opted to let it go and my son will be an only child (at least for now), but you never know what the future holds.  

Your never too old!  I love chatting with the over 35'ers, so please, tell us about you!  If you are pregnant, would also love to know where you are at, do you know what you are having, and anything else you want to share.

Nice to meet you all!  It's great to be back on this forum.

Amanda

[JessCar76]

Thank you so much. Even though I was told that it would never happen, something inside of me would never accept that. I just knew that there was no way that God would not allow me to have the one thing that I always wanted. My husband would joke, too, that he wanted many kids. I always wanted 6. The way things have turned out, I think that this will be my one and only miracle but that is fine with me. Maybe God will have different plans for us and that would be  just fine with me, too, but I won't be pressing my luck. To finally have the opportunity to be a mother is a blessing in itself. My only regret is that my mother isn't here to finally see this.  She was my biggest advocate and wanted for me to finally have my miracle. She passed away suddenly 3 years ago.

[cutter1974]

Congrats on your pregnancy.
I know how hard it is to lose a parent when you are going thru a loss. 2 weeks before I lost the last baby my dad died. I knew that things were not looking good with baby before he died, but we never told him that. He always asked how the baby was doing and we would say good. We didn't want to upset him, even though we were pretty sure it was a blighted ovum. Atleast my husband and I can take comfort in knowing that my dad is in heaven looking after our three angel babies.

[inlovewithhubby]

Wow you really are blessed. I never had a problem getting pregnant and when I first got married 20 years ago my husband and I joked about having a lot of children, enough for a baseball team. Well I didn't really think it would happen, but I'm on #10 so I guess it wasn't much of a joke. Congratulations to you. I'm so happy for you.

[michelle81781]

You have an amazing story. Its so hard to lose a parent especially while having baby troubles. My father died when my twins were 10 days old. Because of his health and them being in NICU alittle over an hour away he never got to see them before he passed. Im so happy you and hubby have such a strong faith and were able to move on to this point. Congradulations

[ShePowell]

Hi there! My name is Kelly I am from South Wales, I'm 37 years old and 6 weeks pregnant with my first. If all goes okay then I'll be 38 when baby is born!  Being older does make me worry more, but I haven't really been ready before! I'm a bit nervous &  at this stage it feels really strange because there isn't anything I can do till I get to see the midwife at 8 weeks. I'm constantly thinking am I really pregnant or have I tricked myself!!

[MissTrevia]

Sorry about the double post, my phone is being weird.