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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just gave birth at 47 so you are not too old.  And it is great being a parent!

That being said adoption is hard. Agencies have age cut offs and some limit single parents.  There are not many babies available.  And it can take a lot of time.  https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/10/adopt-baby-cost-process-hard/620258/

I personally felt that baby adoption was too fraught with potential unethical situations and did not feel equipped or like I would be the best parent of an older child who had gone through developmental trauma (definitely felt I needed a partner to be up for that.).

Age is the least of the barriers :).  (My grandmother also gave birth at 47 (her 3rd) and my aunts adopted a toddler in their early fifties.) [/quote]

Wow! Natural or assisted fertility?[/quote]

My grandmother was natural but it’s almost impossible to have a “natural” pregnancy as a single person.  (I did try a few home Insemination but that is not really “natural”). In the end, I did IVF with donor egg add-on (to save money and time given low odds of success  and of 8 mature own eggs and 10 mature donor eggs had 1 euploid embryo (donor egg) who is now my daughter.).   I would recommend OP go straight to donor embryo/embryo “adoption” (a misnomer) if she decides against the adoption route and is willing to get pregnant.  With a normal uterus and 3 euploid embryos odds of success are 95% (it’s like 50/80/95 with 1, 2 and 3 tries (euploid embryos)  respectively)  better than adoption or any other reproductive assistance amd much less costly than anything else. [/quote]

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