I was 38 years old when we started trying to have a baby. I thought it would be no problem, but the 3 years it took us was the most difficult period of my life.
After 40, your chances of getting pregnant are between two and eight percent, and in my particular case, they were less than five percent.
People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.
Endometriosis is notoriously difficult to diagnose because the symptoms are perverse. A woman with mild endometriosis can be in an agony for days every month (or every day for every month); women with the severe kind can have hardly any pain at all, like me.
When a woman opens up about her fertility struggles, I feel less alone, and I hope to help others in the same way.
There are thin girls with infertility issues, normal sized girls with infertility issues and overweight girls with infertility issues. Unless your doctor tells you your weight is affecting you in some way... once the doctor rules it out, that's really not it.
Like most women, I thought it would be easy once I decided to start a family. I was surprised that Mother Nature kept poking me in the eye, saying, 'Nope, nope, nope.'
We have a generation of women who think that they can just have IVF, and everything will be fine. The odds are against you once you start having IVF, and the odds are against you over the age of 35. And to pretend that it's easy to have a baby in your 40s or 50s is - it's just selling women a false dream.
There are a lot of difficulties with people trying to conceive.
I was told that there's near on a million to one chance that I would be able to have children.
