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Bald, getting chemo and pregnant at 45

Catherine McDiarmid-Watt | Monday, January 22, 2018 | 0 comments

Image: She's my beautiful little girl, said Leila Sadat, who became pregnant at 45 with her third child, and learned she had breast cancer. Two years later Sadat is cancer-free, and her daughter, Emily, is healthy

For Sadat, a precautionary biopsy confirmed her worry:

What doctors initially thought was an infection of the breast tissue was actually a tumor.

A tumor that grew quickly.

Her uncle, a doctor in his 80's, told her she had to have an abortion or she would die.

Her oncologist, obstetrician and other doctors at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital assured her the cancer was treatable, and the baby was not at risk.

Sadat, who was 45 at the time, practices yoga, eats organic food and had never been seriously ill.

It was difficult to reconcile that with pumping toxic chemicals through her blood.

I was a pregnant happy mom. All of a sudden you're a cancer patient, and my whole essence fought that, she said.

I think I just knew I had to wake up and do what they told me to do, because I had to be there for my kids.

She fought the disease bald and pregnant and getting chemo.

This Pregnancy Over 40 story was found on Pantagraph.com
Read more: Hope, in a time of horror, for pregnant cancer patients
Originally posted on July 26, 2008.

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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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