to be worried about my fertility

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36 today.

Yikes.

People conceive in their 40s right please

Happy birthday

If you want children then you're absolutely right to be thinking about this now, but do try not to panic. Instead, arm yourself with knowledge, consider all your options and then take action. Whether that's dating like mad until you meet someone you want to have a child with, or considering alternative options. I know you've rejected it as being not for you, but I think the people who have brought their experiences of single motherhood by choice to the thread have only done so with the best of intentions - to make sure you're aware it's an option.

It can happen - met my partner when I was 40, after ending a long term relationship a few moths before which was making me unhappy and was convinced I'd end up single and childless. Conceived dd1 by accident when I was 41, conceived ds1 (due any day now) at age 42 on first attempt whilst breastfeeding. Hoping for number 3 in a couple of years.

I second getting your fertility checked out - it may be that everything is fine and you have no need to panic.

Matilda I realise that which is why I politely explained it's not for me :)

I imagine everything probably is fine but if it isn't fine, I can't conjure a man out of thin air so it's a bit senseless just at the moment

I'd never be approved for adoption unless the criteria changes massively, Horace (I already asked under a different alias on here and was essentially old Absolutely Not. Go and get a turkey baster!) except I really, really don't want to!

It IS hard facing a possible future without children, it does make me sad, but I suppose at some point I may have to accept it.

Told. Not old!

Happy birthday!

I'm proof that it can happen. I'm 40 and pregnant with my first, conceived naturally, after 7 (!) years of trying.

Congratulations!