Reply to "41 year old w/ pouch (11 yrs), is pregnancy a bad idea?"

GinaPouchtasticMember

I found out I have blocked tubes. Based on my AMH test, my egg reserve is extremely low and they didn't feel like my odds of success with IVF were good. We're doing adoption. I think I always knew deep down I'd be an adoptive mom. The adoption process is not easy either.

Basically if you wait until your late 30s/early 40s to start a family there is no path that isn't difficult and expensive. This is something they should warn us about in our 20s...and if they did...maybe I should have listened? I don't know. I was too sick. I didn't even have a man until I was 28 and I had surgery at 30 and then needed like 10 years of therapy for all the PTSD from the illness. So this was likely the only time I could have even considered being a parent.

I hope it works out. I hope the adoption people think I'm healthy enough to be a mom. The pouch is acting up again...

2/7/231:55 PM

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