Wow, that's beautiful. It's also more and more wonderful, for me, to hear from women who've had their children later in life. I know that will be the case for me. I remember when I was a kid and my mom was the "room mother" in my class at school -- she would make cupcakes for holidays and chaperone field trips and stuff, and I loved it. But I was always aware too, though, that my mom was older than my friends' moms (I was born when she was 31 -- considered back in 1975 to be mighty damn late in her life). It's so nice to know that even if I don't have my first child until I'm 35 or so, I may well be among my own peers when I'm a "room mother" at school.
Okay, so the "surgery" part doesn't sound like fun at all. But IVF -- it's expensive, and the odds aren't ideal, but hey, if you want it, I say go for it. 44 is plenty young enough to have another baby! Have you heard of Single Mothers By Choice (http://mattes.home.pipeline.com/)? This has been a big resource for me already. You might enjoy a prowl around their site.
Wouldn't you find it weird to have a child and grandchildren at or very close to the same age cause I know that having Luke and Hope that close to our children's age is wierd. I am not saying not to do it just a question?
I do too, at 42. It's hard to acknowledge my childbearing days are over sometimes. But to be perfectly honest, I don't think I'd have the energy to raise another baby/toddler. And yet... :o)
I think part of it is that I know I'd be a much better mother now than when I was when I was in my twenties. But still, when I see how terrific my kids turned/are turning out, I must have done something right.
I am still coming! I land on Saturday night, and heinous_bitca is picking me up and installing me on her couch for the night. :-) She's actually in the city I am going to, so it works out good. You are a snoo, though. :-*
I will be around in October for most of the month, then I'm gone until the first week of December - but I am sticking around for Christmas! Plenty of opportunity for t00bage. :-D
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Who says you can't have it all?
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Date: 2005-09-19 07:10 pm (UTC)I will be around in October for most of the month, then I'm gone until the first week of December - but I am sticking around for Christmas! Plenty of opportunity for t00bage. :-D
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