does anyone know of anyone who fell pg naturally at 47?

[paisleyII]

just turned 47, was ttc for second child for nearly 8 years, long since stopped ttc. feel really weird, have done for a few weeks. funny really as never occured to me that i may be pg, have mixed feelings about it really although doubt that i am but always possible. just wondered (af is very late plus had an odd show a few weeks ago but put all down to age). in think it is really funny as a year or so ago i would have automatically thought i was pg, and yet now it has only just come into my head as i have had really weird tummy sensations and feel light headed etc. a large part of me doesn't want another as i feel too old and love my life as it is although there will always be a part of me that grieves for the second child i never had (i would be over the moon if i were even though it would be madness), cheers

Yes! My friend's sister and her DH had no kids and she thought she was beginning the menopause but after rapid weight gain realised she was pregnant at 48! She has a beautiful, healthy wee girl now. Good luck!

all I know is the general advice is to continue to use contraception until 2 years after your last period if you are under 50...... so if you're under 50 with regular periods, then yes, you could be pregnant.
Do a preg test at least 4 weeks after your last period to be sure....

Friends partner did. She thought she was going through the menopause

thanks ladies. my af's have been irregular ie v short cycles or v long but still having af's. after havind secondary infertility for 8 years the thought of doing a pg test fills me with dread as even though i am not longing for a child in the way that i was for all those years it is still a horrible thing as they were always neg, even when one time i was pg (i had a scan and there was a sac) the test still said neg (as i guess the hcg levels were very low) so i associate bad memories with the darn things. tbh i do feel pg but thought i had a virus, it may well still be a virus but have alot of weird sensations in my womb area.....always dreamed of having another child although i know dh would be terrified..........i mustn't get my hopes up, i know the 20% of me that still longs for one is beginnign to awaken which is not good as i don't want to be disappointed, i want the 80% of me that doesn't want one to stand up and be heard!! :)

Friend had suprise twins aged 50!

angels, ooh don't tell me that, i am bricking it now....

doesn't a woman go through hyper fertility right before the menopause?

My mum said that woman in the bed next to her when she had me was 47 when she had her first. The poor woman thought she had indigestion. Had been trying for years.

Got pregnant naturally at 46 if that's any help!

some women do, but haven't ttc unsuccessfully for nearly 8 years i thought that it was only women that had had alot of children in their fertile years that were likely to fall pg naturally later in life but i know there are exceptions. i did most things to get pg for the first 4 years of ttc and never fell pg, i didn't think i could, just one of those women whose fertility disappeared at 40 (i could tell it had when i first started trying) but who knows, there could be a last push that has gone down....i have mixed feelings about the whole thing although if i am honest, it has put a spring in my step, even thought i have never achieved a second pregnancy i have always enjoyed the times when i thought i was, it was the closest i ever got to being pregnant again as tragic as that might sound. i haven't had one of those for a long long time as it has been a long while since it even occured to me that i might be, i feel washed up and old in that department although i am not really complaining, i love my lot as it is :) i know i am lucky to have one at all, i am friendly with a fair few women who would like to have had one and didn't because they didn't meet their partner until they were older

yoko, OMG, indigestion! the lord works in many weird and wonderful ways!! fif - i am impressed! lucky lady

The woman who writes medical columns in the Guardian had a column for a year about her pregnancy age 48.
www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/series/pregnant-again-at-48

thanks crystal - i will have a look now

Fil was born when his mum was 47, I also worked with a woman who was 5 years post menopausal when she concieved.

Sorry to sound negative, and sure you're well aware, but if you are pregnant there's quite a high a chance of miscarriage, so depending on how you prefer to deal with it, might be easier on you not to get hopes up too high in the early stages.

(I'm younger but have had recurrent m/c).

My sister is 50 and has twins due on feb 8th !!! she remarried a much younger man in 2010. She then suffered a miscarriage but they tried again and hey presto.I have to admit i was very shocked and this was followed by being worried.she has astounded me ,she has kept wonderfuly well apart from awful heartburn.C section will be in feb as stated.one twin is 3lb 11 and the other is 3lb 10.And also in the last two months our mum has died ,i was then concerned about my sister again ,but again she really coped well.And no there was no IVF.She already has two adult children.Not identical twins on the way.

dozer, i know & i have experienced a mc myself before i had dd. as odd as this may sound, although not to women who have secondary infertility as i have known many over the years and we seem to all agree on this, is that any pregnancy is longed for, desperate and pathetic but even if it were to experience being pg again for just a few months, i would rather that than never be pg again. i would go through the pain of having a mc even if i knew i would lose the child i would still love to experience some kind of pregnancy again. that probably sounds really tragic/stupid but it is how i have always felt and still feel (having an mc is awful, i had one at ten weeks once, still think about it, always will so i am not playing down the awfulness of having one).

mummy - really sorry to read about you losing your mum x

dozer - i forgot to say, sorry to read that you have had a few mc's. i hope it will all work out for you. you probably get this told you you all the time, i used to when i had one and it used to really annoy me even though people meant well (& didn't know what else to say) but i had a friend who had 8 and went on to have (naturally) two other children with normal pregnancies. best of luck

What are you going to do paisley? Will you rush out and get a test in the morning? Have you told your DH? Best of luck btw.

My Dh's girlfriend ( before we married) had a younger sibling who was born when her mum was 49.

Oldest recorded natural UK birth is 56 according to my gynae.

Did read that you weren't keen on preg tests, but after the responses taht you have got on this thread has that made you need to test?

first - i did tell dh, you should have seen his face. in the 8 years of ttc there have been a fair few times, although none recently, when i was sure i was pg but never experienced the joy of a positive pg test. i hate the bloody things. cost an arm and a leg and the PAIN/ache when the positive window remains empty/clear. i was always told that if you stop ttc you are more likely to fall pg. i stopped ttc a long time ago and have been in acceptance although emotionally still go through 'bad dark moments', usually when in a supermarket and end up having a cry hiding in a quiet section :( funny really, ever since i have thought of myself as too old it has been liberating having had 'hope' taken away from me. i found hope to be the most damaging thing as the rollercoaster of will i won't i each month was very hard but take hope away and it has been alot easier. i didn't think having a child already that it would have been emotionally so hard over the years but it has been, i like to look back over those years as a life enhancing experience, even the injecting of self medicating infertility treatments. i think dh, going back to your question, is silently inwardly freaking out. i doubt i am even though my tummy is so bloated and many a weird sensation plus my head feels like i am on something.....

yes, friend of friend got pregnant naturally at 48, just as she was preparing to adopt a little girl - so she now has 2 children about 18 months apart!

i will do a test later in the week if i haven't already come on..