In this episode my wonderful friend Isabel joines me on the show to share her experience of becoming a mom at the advanced maternal age, over 35, which is scary to think is considered geratric in the fertility world!  

 

Listen in as we talk about:

• What it’s like becoming an older mom for the first time
• What causes many of people / couples to delay starting their families 
• Fibroids and how they impacted her life and deciding to get them removed.
• Having surgery to remove her fibroids so she can start her family 
• Her residence to seeing a fertility specialist 
• The news of getting pregnant within a couple months after getting the all clear to start trying! 
• What if felt like being pregnant as an older women 
• How it felt being the only older mom at Mommy and baby groups 
• Focus on aging well to be able to have the energy to keep up with kids 
• Why she craved meeting other other mom’s  
• Her desire to build a community and share other’s stories with other older mom’s 

 

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