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[quote=Anonymous]I'll be 46 tomorrow and currently 8 months pregnant as a FTM.  I won't lie, it's not easy and not how I ever imagined having children. In my late 30's I seriously considered being a single parent, but it just never felt right, so I didn't give it a go alone. I got married at 43 and my husband and I started TTC through fertility treatments as soon as we got engaged.  As someone who overthinks everything, I've thought of all the pros/cons of being an older parent and the risks associated with it for me, for a child of an older parent, and in the end, my husband and I decided to move ahead. We understand that it's not ideal, but we feel like we've got a lot to give as parents and will make sure we do everything possible to give our kid a good life.  I'm considered high risk and it requires extra testing, extra visits with MFM and OBs, but this it the path we decided to go down and we understood it when we did. I've tried not to be depressed about it but rather look at it as how fortunate we are to even have the opportunity at this point. And I pray every day that I deliver a healthy baby in a few weeks. If I could redo my life, sure, I'd put less focus on my career and more on trying to start a family earlier, but I don't have a magic time machine so I'm trying to make the most of what I can at this point.  [/quote]

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