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It wasn't menopause, it was a miracle!

Catherine McDiarmid-Watt | Monday, February 25, 2019 | 0 comments

Image: Against the odds: Alice Eve Cohen cradles baby Eliana who she gave birth to after believing she was infertile for 15 years

With my feet in stirrups, I asked my gynecologist about my symptoms, while she performed an internal exam.

She said: Welcome to the menopause!

She advised me to exercise, start a diet, continue taking the hormones and see her again in a year.

On Friday, September 10, 1999, I saw another doctor.

She suspected a large uterine or ovarian tumor and sent me for an emergency CAT scan.

Afterward, I fell asleep in the waiting area.

Mrs Cohen.

Someone was shaking my shoulder.

Mrs Cohen. We did find something in you. We found a baby.

For the next two-and-a-half months, I stayed indoors and lay on my left side.

I turned 45 years old.

At 5.30pm on December 13, 1999, after a hellish 47-hour labor, I gave birth to our daughter.

This Pregnancy Over 40 story was found on Dailymail.co.uk
Read more: It wasn't the menopause, it was a miracle: At 30, doctors told Alice she was infertile - at 45 she had a baby
Originally posted on August 4, 2009.

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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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