YearningHow we understand the yearning… the feeling of being slightly poleaxed every time you see a pregnant woman on the street, the turning off of nappy adverts on the telly, the shutting down when friends talk about their seemingly bottomless fecundity.
The yearning that veers towards grief as you stare at a potentially childless future.First of all, 40 is a really good time to seriously consider your options.
Too often we hear from women nearing 50 who have been in denial about their childbearing prospects and suddenly realise that things are now complicated.
We need to remember in this day and age that, just because our bodies are honed by yoga (not ours by the way) and our faces are smoothed by Botox (no comment), it doesn’t mean that.
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