Nearly 53, definitely menopausal...or pregnant???

[Cassavaflower]

I know it doesn't sound possible but I'm being sick, can't stand the smell of my husband, have terrible headaches and am craving rice. I never eat rice! Also I can't bear tea and I normally drink gallons of it!
It must be a virus, right? No-one my age could possibly be preggers?

That was to yannalisa or whatever her username is.

Why?

A miracle and a blessing for you perhaps, but not for the child.

You'll be 65 when they start secondary education - 71 when they go to Uni. It's not fair on you and your husband or the child. It also means that should anything happen to you, any older siblings will end up taking responsibility for their much younger sibling - whilst it's nice that families look after one another, it also isn't fair to land that kind of responsibility on them when they may not even have plans to start their own family yet.

Sorry @yannalisa - I was probably a bit mean.

The test does look negative. I hope you get the result you want if you retest.

A midwife told me about a woman she looked after once. She turned up at a&e with horrendous stomach pains, in her early 50s. Had a baby a few hours later. Her son in his late 20s arrived to visit and was very shocked at the whole business. More shocked than the mum.

So... it's not unheard of.

Im really sorry if i offended you in anyway
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@CrimsonThunder that's very mean. Lots of older parents live a long life, as younger parents don't always live that long! I'm sure OP would give a fantastic home to a child. 50s isn't fit for the knackers yard yet.

I didn't realise you could get pregnancy tests like that. Seemed a bit attention-seeking on a trending thread. Still does tbh, but if I'm wrong I'm sorry for being an arse.

Wow just wow. I’m 50 with a 9 year old and I know several grandparents raising children as their sons / daughter couldn’t etc
just gob smacked by the comment poor child.

any child born and wanted into a loving family or raised by a loving family is blessed

Im another one voting for poss covid but im so intruiged if you are....good luck & what will be will be!

He probably just thought people over 50 don't have sex anymore, hence the additional shock

What a shitty thing to say. I lost my Mum when I was 31, she had just turned 60. I've got friends who lost parents in childhood/teens. I had my son at 42, he's now 11. I have recovered from breast cancer. I hope I live for a long time. You can't say shit like that, it's mean and unnecessary. Nobody knows what the future holds.

Those who commented about being an older parent... bah humbug to you

Watching with intrigue OP 👍💪🤞

Wow. Good luck for whatever you hope for.

I've had the opposite treatment from medical staff, asking me if I still have periods in my early forties! (for those being given pregnancy tests in their fifties).

What a lovely person you sound, not.

I lost my Dad when I was 32 and he was 58. Thank God he didn't have me when he was 53.

You can talk about mean all you want but pretending that age doesn't play a part in your proximity to illness and death is tactical ignorance.

Oh wow good luck

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It’s not like she is trying for a baby, and she doesn’t even no if she’s pregnant or not yet, is there really any need to be so unpleasant?

I know someone who was 22 and dropped dead of a heamorrage the day her baby was born... how selfish of her to go and die like that.

I best friend in unis mam died when she was only 12 from cervical cancer... how selfish again.

I know many young parents who have had mental breakdowns or serious health issues (single mother with cancer etc...) and had to relinquish care to someone else for a bit - how utterly selfish of them.

Clearly then no one should ever have children incase they cant care for them in the future according to you on your immortal pedestal.

OP still has 28 years to go until average life expectancy and she could be fit and healthy past that for all you know - not all old people are decrepit.

Best of luck OP. I think unlikely but best to check.

I think people are being unnecessarily mean. It's not like OP was trying to have a baby and it's so unlikely to be the case anyway. I also don't get the examples of people dying decades before the average. I mean people drop dead in their 20s and 30s too.

Pregnant 💯

Hello all,
Thank you for the lovely messages and the ones who were mean you don't need to worry, it's a negative

We're all here wanting to know the outcome right?