Congratulations on your pregnancy! I too conceived and gave birth naturally at 42. 4 months before this last baby was conceived, I had a miscarriage, probably due to too much wine during Christmas, not knowing that I was pregnant. Found out Jan 6 I was 5 weeks, then 2 weeks later, lost the baby. Then May 16, found out I was pregnant again at 4 weeks. Gave birth 5 weeks early to a very healthy beautiful baby girl (all my children were delivered early).
I am wondering if there is any way we could "survey" the women who were able to conceive naturally in their 40s to find out how many women used hormonal birth control in their earlier years? I noticed that most women I knew were "on the pill" in their early 20s, then in late 30s when they decided it was "time" to have a baby, they couldn't. I read an article 10 years ago discussing a theory that the pill and other hormonal birth control not only could raise breast cancer risks but also it reduces the ability of women to conceive later in life because the pill would "trick" the body to think it was pregnant. Naturally our bodies will eventually think we've been pregnant so many times when we're on the pill, so maybe that is why so many women who are just in their 30s but used the pill for many years had issues getting pregnant? I had classmates who used the pill for one reason or another ranging from regulating periods to acne, to just plain preventing pregnancies, and when they decided to have a baby after using the pill for 10-15 years continuously, they couldn't conceive. Please advise if you were a regular birth control pill user in your earlier years before you tried to conceive in late 30s or 40s. Thank you!
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Congratulations on your pregnancy! I too conceived and gave birth naturally at 42. 4 months before this last baby was conceived, I had a miscarriage, probably due to too much wine during Christmas, not knowing that I was pregnant. Found out Jan 6 I was 5 weeks, then 2 weeks later, lost the baby. Then May 16, found out I was pregnant again at 4 weeks. Gave birth 5 weeks early to a very healthy beautiful baby girl (all my children were delivered early).
September 26, 2015 - 7:31amI am wondering if there is any way we could "survey" the women who were able to conceive naturally in their 40s to find out how many women used hormonal birth control in their earlier years? I noticed that most women I knew were "on the pill" in their early 20s, then in late 30s when they decided it was "time" to have a baby, they couldn't. I read an article 10 years ago discussing a theory that the pill and other hormonal birth control not only could raise breast cancer risks but also it reduces the ability of women to conceive later in life because the pill would "trick" the body to think it was pregnant. Naturally our bodies will eventually think we've been pregnant so many times when we're on the pill, so maybe that is why so many women who are just in their 30s but used the pill for many years had issues getting pregnant? I had classmates who used the pill for one reason or another ranging from regulating periods to acne, to just plain preventing pregnancies, and when they decided to have a baby after using the pill for 10-15 years continuously, they couldn't conceive. Please advise if you were a regular birth control pill user in your earlier years before you tried to conceive in late 30s or 40s. Thank you!
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