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377493 tn?1356502149

How far along are you?

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
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715068 tn?1392933532
My name is Jennifer & I am 37 y/o.  My husband & I have been trying for a child for over 5 years & have had many losses.....10 plus.  We've had 2 second trimester losses, blighted ovums & chemicals.  I am currently 25 weeks (tomorrow) with a healthy baby boy.  I have been diagnosed with a blood clotting disorder & am taking lovenox this time.  We have just recently started trying to wrap our minds around the fact that we'll have a baby here in 13-15 weeks!!!!
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4593117 tn?1357773395
Haha wow.... bad typing there at the end of that post.
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4593117 tn?1357773395
Hi! I am 38 and I am 11 weeks and 3 days. This is my first pregnancy. I had given up hope of being a mom, especially after I separated and finally divorced from my husband. Fate stepped in and I met the man of my dreams. After being together for 2 years we are happily expecting our baby. Yay!!!!! This is a grest forum and I lobe readinf everyones's stories.
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I am im Omaha, NE. I have two grown daughters 22 & 18.Having another girl. She was a complete ooops. Getting anxious to be done. Im high risk for multiple reasons..
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Hi all. I'm Carrie. I'm 33 and I live in the UK. I first became pregnant when I was 21. It was unplanned but I soon got used to it and was happy. Unfortunately weeks into the pregnancy I started bleeding. Went to the hospital and a mis carriage was confirmed. A few months later I was pregnant again. All went well this time. I even worked as a security officer till I was 8 months gone. My baby boy was born May 2002 a week late. He's 11 this year. My husband didn't want any more kids so my son was brought up as an only child. In 2009 my husband and I split after he found someone else. In time I met a wonderful man. He didn't have any kids but wanted them. In 2011 I became pregnant. We were really excited. Downloaded the pregnancy apps, looked each day at how things were progressing. Then about 6 weeks into the pregnancy I started bleeding. I know sometimes a bit of bleeding is ok in pregnancy and hoped this was one of those times. But it got heavier so had to accept it wasn't normal. I saw my gp who sent me for blood tests. They showed my hcg were rising, but not enough for a healthy pregnancy. It was ectopic. One of my tubes had to be removed. When I felt well enough, we started trying again and soon I found out I was expecting again. We were nervous at first but things were going well. When I was four months along I started having breathing problems so had regular visits to antenatal for check ups. On the 10th of August 2012 I was induced. Nine days before my due date. Labour was going well. I was in labour overnight. Then on the 11th the midwife noticed something was wrong. She pressed the emergency button and the room filled with doctors. Each of them trying to find a heartbeat. But it was gone. I was rushed down to theatre and was put to sleep. When I woke up I was told my uterus had ruptured and my baby boy was born into my belly. The placenta had come away like it does after a normal birth. The doctors, midwives and surgeon said they had never seen anything like it and they couldn't explain it. We had our baby boy buried a week later. Luckily they repaired my uterus. I'm now five weeks pregnant. I know this time I will be having a planned c section and my baby will be delivered early so not to risk labour. To say I'm happy is an understatement, but I'm also scared and nervous. I've got my first appointment with the midwife next were. Earlier than usual because of my history. I don't think I will be relaxed properly till I see the first scan. Fingers crossed for everyone on here. Though I'm sure all will go well.
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Hi mah name is barbara dis is mah second child.. i have a 2 yr. old boy name D'Marion and now I'm 29wks and 3daes wid mah lil girl.. that me and mah fiance can't wait to have and by the way I'm 18 and mah fiance is 25 but I'm almost close to dha big day april..;)
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im 37 and 6.5 weeks. I have 2 daughters 20 & 12. So I am starting all over again. My first appointment is friday 2/8 so i am praying everything is fine.
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Hi, I'm Tanya and I live in the middle Georgia area. I just downloaded this pregnancy App. I'm 38, and have 4kids. 2boys (20&13) and 2girls (8&17). I had a tubal reversal in April 2012. My husband has no children of his own and we'd like to have at least one together. I had an ectopic in May 2012, that was caught very early and seems to be no damage to my tube. We started ttcing again in August and just got a positive pregnancy test Saturday night! I think I'll be 5wks Friday. I'm waiting for my numbers to get over 1500 to have an ultrasound to see if baby is in the uterus. We are scared and excited. Praying baby is snug where it should be!
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Yes she is!! :-)
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thank u!!!  i know i am very lucky to have them. they already have six kids (all younger...oldest its 19)  i was worried about how they were going to feel about it.  they are super excited for us and i feel this has actually brought us closer
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1907180 tn?1329450777
Your little girl is a miracle child :)
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I forgot to mention she is now 15 months old
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1907180 tn?1329450777
That is truly an amazing gift that your aunt and uncle are giving you :)
You are truly blessed to have the family that you do. I wish you all the best on your journey to becoming a mom.
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Hi. My name is Tamesia. I'm 36 and will be 37 in May.  I live in northern NJ about 20 minutes outside of Manhattan. This will be my 8th child. I have 3 girls and 4 boys. They were all born on time and healthy except for the last one. She was diagnosed with Hydrops Fetalis at 16 weeks. I was told by both my OB and the perinatologists that I needed to just abort because she had fluid in her lungs and belly and eventually her heart would stop in the next couple weeks. They said there is no child that was diagnosed with that condition so early that survived to be born. There is only about a 2% survival rate and that is in babies who have a known cause for having this. I refused to accept that. At 23  weeks she was still alive and kicking so I had a procedure done where a doctor drained the fluid out of her lungs. It was so painful and I was afraid but I knew doing that would give her more of a chance of survival. By 31 weeks I developed polyhydramnios and went into labor. They tried to stop it but nothing worked. She spent 1 month in the NICU at the hospital but they didn't know how to treat her because her belly was still full of fluid. They transferred her to Children's Hospital in Philadelphia where she spent 4 months. She came home and has been absolutely perfect. When I see her and her smile everyday I just think about what if I took the doctors advice and aborted her. I would have been making the biggest mistake in my life. All I could think of that time was God will see me through this and doctors are just man. Now that I am 13 weeks I'm getting nervous because there is no guarantee this will not happen again. But I pray over this child everyday and try and believe everything will be ok.
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hi. I'm 37going to be 38in March. i live in Ct, USA.  I've got four beautiful kid's two boys two girls. I'm almost 21 weeks pregnant with a baby girl.  I'm also labeled as high risk for multiple reasons.  this wasa huge surprise. my oldest will be 18 acouple if weeks before I'm due for the baby.  I've also had allot of problems when my babies we're born I'm scared to death what will happen with my baby girldue to medicationi take and can't stop or I'll miscarry :-(  but I'm trying to think positive and Hope she's not sick:-D good luck to all you women.
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1679513 tn?1342481238
Wow that's very nice of them!
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no.  they got pregnant and we are going to adopt it.  everything will be done before she gives birth.  
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4738473 tn?1360035798
Thats wonderful news and great of them to do. If i may ask, Is she carring a child of you and your hubbys that was inplanted like a serogant?
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hi.  i am tiffanie.  i am not yet 35.  actually i am only 26.  my husband and i have been together for 9 years.  we really wanted to start a family every since we were married almost five years ago.  unfortunately that hasn't happened.  my doctor told me it would be difficult...but not impossible.  but still nothing.  my sister has 2 beautiful children whom i am very close to and another nephew on my husbands side who just turned one yesterday.  i was happy for them when they found out they were pregnant but it hurt a lot too because it wasn't me.  my aunt and uncle came to us and offered to have a baby for us.  we all talked about it and  we thought hard but ultimately decided we would love to do this and finally become parents.  happy to say she is 7 Weeks tomorrow and we are going to be parents in september.  i have to say i have the best aunt and uncle in the world and feel truly blessed to have them in my life.  they are giving us the best gift anyone could ever ask for.
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377493 tn?1356502149
Thank you so much everyone for sharing your stories.  I haven't been able to read them all yet, but I will.  A community like this is so much more supportive when we know who each other is.  I very much look forward to getting to know all of you better!
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3858871 tn?1363229660
It has been extremely difficult, I'm not going to lie. I am still grieving for her and now that I'm pregnant, it's a little harder. She was my best friend and we talked on the phone at least 3 times a day every day, plus she spent  every weekend with me and is the one that took care of me and nursed me to help after each surgery that I had. We are giving our baby her name as a middle name and I am hoping that my mother's spirit will be in her :)
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1679513 tn?1342481238
Oh how sad! I don't know how you could go through that. It must have been really hard. My mom just turned 61 this month. We live far away but we talk on the phone and we've visited each other. I don't know what I would do if she died. My dad is 66 and I don't want to lose him either. Sorry to hear about your loss.
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3858871 tn?1363229660
She was absolutely fine on a Saturday. Sunday afternoon she woke up from a nap and told me that she felt like she was getting the flu. I took her home (she spent every weekend with me). She took some meds and the next morning (Monday) she called to say that she was feeling worse and was going to the dr. She never  made it. My uncle went to see her and saw how bad she looked so he took her to the ER. She coded in the ER and never woke up again. I made the decision to take her off of life support (she kept crashing no matter how many times they brought her back to life).  It turns out that she had a kidney infection that she didn't know about and had spread into her blood stream (septsis) and it shut down all of her organs). She died as I held her hand begging her not to leave. She was only 53.
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1679513 tn?1342481238
I'm so sorry about your mother passing? What happened to her?
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