Was I prepared for the outcome of not having a baby?
Me And My Tiny Human · Rachel Corbett
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Show Notes
Today I'm answering this question from Anonymous...
"I’m currently doing IVF to become a solo mum and while I’m super hopeful and optimistic it will work out, the realities are starting to dawn on me that it may not. And I may have to make peace with that at some point. So I guess my questions are - Did you think about this? Did you have a limit on how many round you would do? How did you handle the IVF rollercoaster once you decided you were ready to be a mum? Do you know anyone who tried without success (because this needs to be normalised as much as solo motherhood imo)?"
I was 42 when I had my daughter so if there was one thing I was definitely across and that was the fact that, at my age, becoming a mum was more unlikely than it was likely.
Every fertility appointment I went to (and there were a lot of them) I was reminded of the statistics.
So I knew, no matter how much I wanted to be a mum, there were absolutely no guarantee it would happen.
This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Wangal people, of the Eora Nation.
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