What Are Your Chances of Becoming Pregnant?

In a day and age where most women work, we still find our biological clocks ticking and wondering when is the right time to get pregnant. At a young age I can remember wanting to be a mother and at age 22 after marrying I became pregnant. But only after going thru the worst time of my life.

I had learned when I was 21 that I couldn't get pregnant without going through corrective female surgery as I was born with my ovaries stuck to my uterus. I was told after surgery that I had a one in a million shot of getting pregnant. That was in August 1984 and December 21, 1984 by the Grace of God I became pregnant.

I remember how excited I was at finding out that we were expecting and the elation I felt. It was the most wonderful experience I had ever had. Feeling my daughter move inside me was an emotional experience every woman should get the chance to experience.

Soon after my delivery I developed endometriosis, the pain was so excruciating from it, my gynecologist tried steroid shots but it never worked. On September 12th 1986 I had a hysterectomy which forever changed my life. I remember thinking after surgery that I didn't feel like a woman anymore because I couldn't have anymore kids.

There are alot of women who don't get the chance at motherhood, either because of a medical problem such as endometriosis and uterine fibroids or the inability to carry a child. Adoption is an option for some couples, but for other couples they just don't have the money. I belive all women should have the chance to be a mother whether it be by surrogacy or adoption or IVF.

Fertility doctors give some women the chance to get pregnant but other women can't afford that option as cost for just one IVF is 10,000 dollars or more. Typically women have to go thru an evaluation before IVF.

"The general IVF patient population may have a greater occurence of altered ovarian function secondary to tubal or other disease."-Advanced Reproductive Care, Inc.

And in the end we just want to be mothers with a little special being to love. There are women out there that pray for a baby everyday, whose marriages fail because of the heartache from not being able to carry a child. For me that news made me feel less of a woman. I was only able to have one child, but she was my miracle child.I remember when my daughter was 2 years old, we were in Wal-Mart and a lady asked my child if she was ready for a new brother or sister, my daughters answer shocked me, she told the woman that I couldn't have anymore babies. The woman felt so bad for asking that she apologized over and over. Thru the years my biological clock kept on ticking and still does to this day, it doesn't stop just because you can't have anymore kids.

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