Trying to get pregnant when you are over 40 is a challenge, as the odds are firmly stacked against you. However, it is still a possibility, so there is always hope. For me, it was a self-development project. I was fortunate enough to conceive and give birth to my miracle baby at age 44, but I worked really hard for it for a very long time. For over 10 years, I made a lot of sacrifices on my journey to get pregnant. I avoided certain foods in case I was pregnant, cut out caffe

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I didn’t even know what a chemical pregnancy was until I had suffered my first one in 2010, which was when my first son was around 18 months old. I had only just started trying to get pregnant again after giving birth to my son in 2008, so I wasn’t totally over the moon when I discovered my period was nearly a week late. I guess I didn’t quite feel ready to be pregnant again. After 5 days of getting used to the idea of being pregnant again, it was all over as I started bleed

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