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59y old surrogate mother for infertile daughter

Catherine McDiarmid-Watt | Wednesday, October 17, 2012 | 0 comments

Image: Baby feet. Photo credit: Leszek Nowak on FreeImages

Photo credit: Baby feet, by Leszek Nowak

As a labor and delivery nurse, it is hard for me to form an opinion on whether or not women in their 40s should be having children.

Some are having their first baby, so who am I to say they shouldn't experience the joys of motherhood?

Yesterday we had a patient come in about 8 months pregnant with twins.

She is 59 years old.

She is a surrogate mother for her infertile daughter.

The twins are products of IVF [in vitro fertilization] -- genetically they are her daughter and son-in-law's children.

TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:

Image: But I Don't Feel Too Old to Be a Mommy!: The Complete Sourcebook for Starting (and Re-Starting) Motherhood Beyond 35 and After 40, by Doreen Nagle. Publisher: HCI (February 7, 2002)

But I Don't Feel Too Old to Be a Mommy! The Complete Sourcebook for Starting (and Re-Starting) Motherhood Beyond 35 and After 40
by Doreen Nagle

-- The first and only book to fully address the concerns of the ever-growing but greatly ignored audience of literate, educated women who have delayed motherhood.

In this comprehensive work, women who are considering parenting in their 30s, 40s and later-whether for the first time or starting over-will find all the information they need to make informed choices.

Complete with quotes from medical experts, later-in-life moms and their kids, this one-stop book will calm the doubts and fears of women considering motherhood after 35 and beyond 40 by providing supportive yet realistic information.

Paperback: 275 pages
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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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