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Meagan Callaghan, 50, desperate to be a mum

Catherine McDiarmid-Watt | Monday, March 20, 2017 | 0 comments

A WOMAN is desperately seeking a donor so she can become an IVF mum at 51.

Despite medical risks - and the prospect of having teenagers in her late 60s - Meagan Callaghan, who will be 51 in June, is advertising for donor eggs.

"Life passes by so quickly, one minute you are 20 and the next you are 50," she said yesterday.

"This is my last chance and I'm not going to give up on it.

"I have always wanted to be a mum, but it just hasn't happened."

Ms Callaghan's doctor, Prof Michael Chapman from IVF Australia, said his clinic treated women up to 51.

This Pregnancy Over 40 story was found on Herald Sun
Read more: Meagan Callaghan, 50, desperate to be a mum
Originally posted on April 1, 2011.

Photo credit: Nic Gibson / Herald Sun
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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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