That was eight years ago and followed an egg-freezing debacle that made it blindingly clear my path to parenthood would be circuitous, at best. @#$" — assumedly a stand-in for an expletive and, as it turned out, a very accurate foreshadowing of what was to come. Being pregnant at my age has proven a challenge, in more ways than oneNow, at 47, I am eight months pregnant and nearly downright blissful. AdvertisementLast summer, following two surgeries (one nearly killed me) for uterine fibroids, I was finally ready to go. The truth is, there was no other path to parenthood for me.

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