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No regrets about giving birth at 50

Catherine McDiarmid-Watt | Thursday, December 14, 2017 | 0 comments

Seiko Noda, a 51-year-old Lower House lawmaker, drew wide public attention and controversy by bearing a child at age 50 through artificial insemination.

Her private life has been filled with constant travails, however, because she had enormous difficulty having a child.

At age 44 she published a book titled Watashi wa Umitai (I Want to Give Birth), in which she poured her heart out about her burning desire to somehow produce offspring and discussed her experience with fertility techniques.

This Pregnancy Over 40 story was found on JapanTimes.co.jp
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Originally posted in March 23, 2013

Photo Credit: SEIKO NODA'S OFFICE / KYODO
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TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:

Image: Unsung Lullabies: Understanding and Coping with Infertility, by Martha Diamond, David Diamond and Janet Jaffe. Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; 1st edition (June 1, 2005)

Unsung Lullabies: Understanding and Coping with Infertility
by Martha Diamond, David Diamond and Janet Jaffe

-- For people experiencing infertility, wanting a baby is a craving unlike any other. The intensity of their longing is matched only by the complexity of the emotional maze they must navigate.

With insight and compassion, Drs. Janet Jaffe, Martha Diamond, and David Diamond-specialists in the field of Reproductive Psychology who have each experienced their own struggle with infertility-give couples the tools to:

• Reduce their sense of helplessness and isolation
• Identify their mates' coping styles to erase unfair expectations
• Listen to their unsung lullabies-- their conscious and unconscious dreams about having a family -- to mourn the losses of infertility and move on.

Ground-breaking, wise, and compassionate, Unsung Lullabies is a necessary companion for anyone coping with infertility.

Paperback: 304 pages
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About Catherine: I am mom to three grown sons, two grandchildren and two rescue dogs. After years of raising my boys as a single mom, I remarried a wonderful man who had never had a child of his own. Unexpectedly, I found myself pregnant at 49!
Sadly we lost our precious baby at 8 weeks, and decided to try again. Five more losses, turned down for donor egg, foster care and adoption due to my age and losses - we have accepted there will be no more babies in our house.

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