075. Tara grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts. She moved away to attend college at Northeastern in Boston. She moved out to Denver, Colorado almost 11 years ago when she was looking for a job after she completed her MBA. From an early age, Tara assumed she was going to have issues having children. Her mother and grandmother both went into menopause in their early 40’s. Every doctor told her she had a less than 10 % chance of conceiving naturally, so she didn’t see a reason to be on birth control. Her AMH was super low and her follicle count was also low. Join us as she shares her natural pregnancy at 40 and her journey to using donor eggs at 44. 

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074. Claire is a mom of three from the UK. When her third child arrived at 43, she had three children under the age of four. Her third child is two years old during the recording of the show. When she was single, she didn’t know if she wanted kids, but she thinks it was meeting the right person that sparked that desire. Claire says it was an accident she got pregnant at 39, her pregnancy at 41 was planned, but at 43, she didn’t want to believe it even though all of the signs were there. Join us as she shares her journey from womb healing to her birth that was too quick for an epidural. 

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073. Laura lives in Boston with her husband and their two children. In her mid 20's, all of her friends married one year. The following year she set out to make it a special year for her. She decided to train for a marathon. It changed everything in her life. She met her husband in her mid 30’s while training for the Boston Marathon. They married when she was 40 and wanted to start planning a family right away. Laura thought it might be hard to get pregnant even though people around her assumed it would be easy because she’s healthy and a runner. Join us as she shares her journey to using donor eggs that led to her son at 43 and the emotional experience to her daughter at 46. Today, Laura has turned her struggles to help other women with her fertility coaching practice. 

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072. Kezia never thought she would get married until she met James on Instagram. She immigrated from Canada with her daughter and their cats in 2021 to a small town in Pennsylvania. She and James had a courthouse wedding later that year. They knew they wanted to have a child together, and she was pregnant quickly. She lost it in the first trimester on her 40th birthday but never had a follow-up appointment. Her cycle didn’t return and her doctor suggested she was perimenopause. Join us as Kezia tells us how her cycle returned with the help of a great doctor, and how she became naturally pregnant at 41 even though her pregnancy came with challenges.

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071. Orla was told by three doctors that she couldn’t have children. In December 2018, she had surgery for endometriosis and a septum uterus. The doctor surgically divided the septum which she was told would reduce the risk of miscarriage from 40% to 25%. Afterwards, her doctor said, “you have the tiniest ovaries I’ve ever seen. It would be a miracle if you released an egg.” After healing from surgery, she was pregnant on the first try. She believes it was because of that surgery she was able to get pregnant at 37 with her son. Join us as she shares her struggles of multiple baby loss to her stressful and emotional pregnancy and daughter at 41. 

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070. Are you about to embark on the donor egg journey? We have four women on the show who have been through it to discuss your questions . We have returning guest Jake, from episode 45 sharing her journey with her first child when she was pregnant at 51. She used a known donor, her niece, Savanah who is also on to share her experience as an egg donor. Jake’s daughter is seven years old. Janice, from episode 68 shares her journey with her sixth child when she was pregnant at 46. Her baby was four months old during the recording of the show. Tara is a future guest sharing her journey at 44 with her second child. Her son is two years old. And your host Jamie Massey shares her short experience as she is pregnant at almost 43. Join us today, as we answer your questions about the donor egg process and more. 

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069. Newly single Carmen is a functional nutritionist in Vancouver, Canada who helps exhausted career-driven moms lose weight. Before she was even ready for kids, she watched a documentary called The Business of Being Born by Ricki Lake that planted a seed that would shape her future prenatal and birth care. She always wanted three kids, so after her son at 38, she wanted to try for a second at 40. She shares lots of nutritional tips that helped her get pregnant in one shot even though it wasn’t clear when she was ovulating.  She also shares her text book home birth that her ex wasn’t exactly on board with despite being only five minutes from the hospital.

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068. Janice had five kids in her 20’s with a previous partner. She met her now fiancé at 39. Together, they had ten children but wanted a baby together. One reversed vasectomy and three IUI’s later, she wasn’t pregnant. Was the vasectomy the cause of not being able to get pregnant? She shares how using donor eggs was an easy choice and why this birth was the longest one of all. She was three months postpartum during the recording of the show. 

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067. Kiersten was pregnant in her 20’s and 30’s with her four kids from a previous marriage. When she met the love of her life at 41, they joked about having a baby together. It was a joke that turned into serious discussions of putting it in God’s hands to decide. Kiersten shares how she prepared for pregnancy without really knowing it. When she got pregnant, she felt like the only pregnant 41-year-old in the world. Join us as she shares her pregnancy challenges to being induced with an amazing labor and delivery nurse. She and her husband have seven kids today. She was three months postpartum during the recording of the show. 

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066. Jenn wanted three to four kids. After she got married at 20, she went on to have two babies in her 20’s. Two miscarriages followed which were devastating to her. She didn’t understand why she had losses after having two babies. She and her husband continued to try, but at 34 years old, the doctor told her she had little to not chance of having another baby. She was no longer ovulating. She eventually accepted it and moved on with her life. Join us today, as Jenn shares her shocking news of her pregnancy at 41. She needed time to process it before she even told her husband. How she was in the greatest shape of her life to an awesome pregnancy and a quick birth. She even shares how she planned the birth of her third baby on her grandmother’s birthday as a surprise for her dad. 

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