She cackled at my husband in the delivery room about it. Downward slide. We’re currently saving up for him to get a vasectomy, cuz my iud didn’t work out and I can’t go back to the Pill and I have and irregular cervix.

Same here. My doctor advised using birth control until I’d gone a full year without a period. I had a scare at 51 and was greatly relieved that it was just that. I can’t imagine having a kid at 47. It was hard enough when I was in my 30s.

Now I’m absurdly sad for the plum tree. Flippin’ hormones...

i have a friend pregnant at 51 with twins; no donor eggs, just fertilization pills. i’m 52 waiting for my meno to pause the hell already...

yeah, i’m done with kids and do I want more in 10 years? or even closer to 20 years because my grandmother had a child at 52.

My (regular medical) doctor told me that too. She said to make sure and not slack off on the birth control in the late 40s because there’s a late fertility spike, you know, unless I wanted another one at this stage. I took it to heart because FUCK NO.

After YEARS of infertility my body was like RIGHT ON. I was like FUCK OFF BODY WHERE YOU BEFORE?? I actually just got my hormone levels checked and my dr was like LOL.

Its very true. My midwife told me after my son was born that my husband and I would need a couple forms of protection for my first year pp. One, because you’re extra fertile after delivery and two, because after 33 your body does what she called a Fire Sale. Everything must go.

My nana got pregnant twice while in menopause.

I’ve never heard that before, but it would explain why I’m having a period every two weeks now. It’s raining eggs!

Yes. It’s why the older you are, the more likely you are to have twins.

I understand this, but the truth is that someone having older parents is not a guarantee they’ll be lost earlier. People die all the time—my father died in his early fifties (and I was nineteen). It can happen earlier—and it will happen inevitably no matter how you slice it. It’s not great, but it’s reality.

My aunty had her youngest child at around 47/48. She already had three grown kids and there is an 18 year gap between her littlest and my next youngest cousin. We all thought she was mad to have another baby, particularly after having her previous child almost killed her. She seems happy though. I think we were mostly…

I’m 30, my mom is 71, and my dad is turning 80 (I’m adopted). Try not to think about it. It does get to me sometimes, but ... yeah, it’s hard. Try not to think about it.

Nope, this is reasonable. I’m 25 and my dad is 75. I don’t have a strong drive to have children, but I do freak out about wanting to decide sooner rather than later. A lot of people don’t think about this if they didn’t have older parents.

Yea same thing happened to a parent of one of my preschool students. I kept looking at her and wondering if she was pregnant. Turned out she was 5 months and had no idea. She just chalked it up to menopause. She'd had I think 3 kids so it must have been different for her to not be able to tell.

This is the ULTIMATE I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant episode!

Alright, maybe this is terrible of me, but I feel bad for the kid in that her parents are as old as they are. My dad was just a bit younger when I was born, and now he’s over 70 when I’m only 26 and I worry about how much longer he’ll be around. :(

My mother’s good friend found out she was pregnant at 45. She thought it was menopause. Of course, she knew at about 15 weeks which gave her slightly more time to prepare, heh. This would make me want to die. I already have three kids, though. I guess if it was a first after thinking I never could I would be…

see this kind of story is why I lose my mind if my period’s two weeks late even though I haven’t seen a dick in a year