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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The real question is: why do you feel compelled to ask this question? What is it about being pregnant with your 3rd in your late 30s and/or what is going on in your life that you think this question is an important one? This is about you, OP. It is not about your friends.[/quote]

This.

It's an extremely rude question to ask, simply because you don't know the answer, and really, the answer doesn't impact anything in your life.

I'm 40, and DH and I are a few days away from our LO, despite being together for 12 years. People assumed a lot of things about us, and I can't tell you how many times I've been asked about the state of my uterus. It was a really painful question, because for us, it came down to a lot about timing and circumstance that was deeper than most people knew was going on in our lives. So, for years I just sidestepped the question while seething inside at the invasion of my privacy. Strangely, the people who really cared for us, and are now the happiest for us, never even asked once about it once in alll those years.[/quote]

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