Don't let all the negative and discouraging information get you if you are pregnant over 40 or trying to conceive over 40
Are you pregnant over the age of 40? Are you trying to conceive over the age of 40? Not only did I run into a lot of negative information when I was trying to conceive, but I also had to endure a lot of negative "warnings" after I became pregnant with my daughter. After years of infertility, failed fertility treatments, and finally the natural conception of my daughter, I had to nagivate the attitude of "she's old, she must be high risk" of the OB/GYN community. Now granted, I was 44, and had a multitude of surgeries and fertility problems behind me, but a number of my problems were caused by the fertility treatments themselves. I had a completely normal pregnancy and a normal delivery, but the well-meaning medical personnel just couldn't accept that I was a normal pregnant women who just happened to be 44. As a result, I had every test in the book, multiple ultrasounds, consultations with perinatologists and on and on. As hard as they tried, they just couldn't find anything wrong!
