I'm 38 and have a ds of 5 years old. My husband is 30 years older than me with four grown up children. I had to have ivf to have him and would love to have another child. But after test 3 years ago I was told that my egg reserve was low and that there was only a 40% chance of my having another baby. We financially could not afford the risk of it not working.
My ds is a happy and polite little boy, but I feel guilty that he is an only child. I don't think that it helps that I work full time 5 days a week so I miss out on a lot.
He sometimes says to me that no one likes him and no one wants to play with him, but he had lots of friends at school.
Today was hard as I was holding a friend's baby and he said to me, do you wish we had a baby. Made me feel really sad.
Am I worrying over nothing, will he be ok being an only child?
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Csimms · 05/08/2015 22:16
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