If I got pregnant in a year I’d be thirty-eight when the baby was born, or If I got pregnant in two years, I’d be a mother at thirty-nine.
I was running these numbers even though I wasn't sure I wanted to be a mom. Basically, I wanted to see how much more time I had left to figure it out.I read lots of articles about women’s fertility decreasing after 35, but they didn’t worry me much.
I read an equal number of stories that said those statistics were overly scary and I knew plenty of women who’d had kids after 35.As I got closer to 40, I started to get nervous.
If I wanted to have a biological child I had to make this decision—and soon.In the 1950s and for decades afterwards, having a child was part of the script of life.
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