considering i was diagnosed with early menopause at 33, I don't think we can make any blanket rules about what conception ability means to parenting ability. I am pregnant now after 1 failed IVF with my own eggs, 1 failed frozen embryo transfer, and 1 successful (so far, knock on wood!) frozen embryo transfer. Both FETs were donated. After trying to become a parent in my twenties, it took 8 years to make it happen. I am an 'older' mother, but I think I'll do just fine, if i don't get hit by a bus.
btw- my great great grandmother lived to 98, first kid at 14- my great grandmother is still alive at 96, first kid at 17, my grandmother died at 73, first kid at 18 (last at 35), my mom is in her mid-fifties, had me at 17. It was cool to have five generations when I was born, we were in the paper. I am happy I didn't become a parent in my teens, and I have accepted that it didn't happen in my twenties.
I don't know if any of this means anything to anyone else- but I know the attitude of the article that anyone should be able dictate to women whether or not they are 'suitable' to be parents because of their ability to reproduce naturally just rubs me the wrong way. my two cents.
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considering i was diagnosed with early menopause at 33, I don't think we can make any blanket rules about what conception ability means to parenting ability. I am pregnant now after 1 failed IVF with my own eggs, 1 failed frozen embryo transfer, and 1 successful (so far, knock on wood!) frozen embryo transfer. Both FETs were donated. After trying to become a parent in my twenties, it took 8 years to make it happen. I am an 'older' mother, but I think I'll do just fine, if i don't get hit by a bus.
btw- my great great grandmother lived to 98, first kid at 14- my great grandmother is still alive at 96, first kid at 17, my grandmother died at 73, first kid at 18 (last at 35), my mom is in her mid-fifties, had me at 17. It was cool to have five generations when I was born, we were in the paper. I am happy I didn't become a parent in my teens, and I have accepted that it didn't happen in my twenties.
I don't know if any of this means anything to anyone else- but I know the attitude of the article that anyone should be able dictate to women whether or not they are 'suitable' to be parents because of their ability to reproduce naturally just rubs me the wrong way. my two cents.
March 11, 2010 - 6:55amThis Comment
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