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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am still on a regular cycle and I turned 50 in Nov!!!  I have skipped a couple months starting last year but still.  I have 2 friends who got pregnant naturally at ages 42/43 so it is 100% possible to have an accident - in fact I would think it's possible for me to get pregnant even though I do not want to with 2 kids over 10 now.  The story is whether having kids 10 yrs apart is too exhausting.  For me, no way would I want it.  The sleepless nights would kill me although I will admit it would be comforting to know what to expect.  Also if I had 2 sane gender kids I would be more likely to embrace a 3rd.  I have friends that ended up that path and couldn't be happier as moms at 40 with newborns. [/quote]

Have you lost your mind? Just because you haven’t hit menopause doesn’t mean you are fertile. You can have a period with no viable eggs.

Do women in this area honestly believe that they’ll be naturally pregnant at 50? Just wow[/quote]

Yes, they are genuinely deluded about their age and fertility because they on avg wasted 10-15 years of life away on pointless zoom calls, PowerPoints, and job hopping. They will never fess up to this, of course. Even after painful and humiliating and sometimes futile fertility treatment. They seem to get off on brainwashing and misleading women younger than them. It’s sick.[/quote]

I've never undergone any fertility treatment at all, and I have kids (both conceived easily within a couple months of starting to try, after the age of 37). I'm glad I focused on my career before having kids because it put me in a comfortable financial position and also helped me build a strong track record and an extensive network in my career, which made it easier for me to take time off to SAHM and then re-enter the workforce in a part-time, flexible role that allows me to be present in my kids lives. I'm not trying to brainwash anyone but I am happy to share my story as a counterpoint to the "you will die barren and alone!" brainwashing I was absolutely targeted with in my 20s when the guys I dated were all immature and kind of awful and I chose to focus on my career in part because the opportunities for marriage/children just weren't there. I held out for a good man who shared my goals, married at 35, and we have a great life together.

I know I'm lucky that I didn't have fertility issues, but I also... exist. You can sit there and say that everyone who disagrees with you is bitter and regrets their life choices, but I'm totally happy with my choices and would make them again. You are the one who sounds bitter and I don't understand why. Are you a woman who had kids young and resent missing out on the freedom and career success that becoming a mom early might have made more difficult? Are you a man who is mad that more women aren't eager to settled down with you at age 26 to have kids? I sincerely doubt you're a woman who has struggled with infertility because I have known many of those and not one of them would talk about it in the terms you do, no matter their age. [/quote]

You’re perpetuating more falsehoods and hostile propaganda that women’s careers are held back because of kids. It’s laughably absurd you’d traffic such ridiculous retrograde propaganda on a forum based in one of the most affluent and progressive power centers on the globe. Where any college educated woman can get all of her world class health care paid for and get 6 months paid maternity leave — and then job hop at the end for a fat raise. What motivates you to lie like this? Coping or something more sinister?[/quote]

DP. So much hostility. Can you put a lid on it please?[/quote]

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