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Why Have a Baby After 50?

Catherine McDiarmid-Watt | Monday, March 18, 2019 | 0 comments

Image: The author and her son Harper, channeling their inner cowpoke outside a lodge she owns in Stanley, Idaho.

I opened my post office box and removed an AARP magazine, a La Leche League newsletter, and a postcard of a pagoda in Myanmar, which I'd mailed to myself two weeks earlier while on assignment in the country formerly known as Burma.

The Idaho mountain morning was autumn orange, my first at home after 24 sleepless hours flying economy class from Yangon.

My baby screamed whenever the stroller stopped rocking, and the early miseries of a cold pounded in my head.

I am 54 years old and suffering the delirious consequences of weaning a baby and being one of the first Western journalists to visit Naypyidaw, the new capital city of the military dictatorship that has held the Nobel Peace Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest for much of the past 18 years.

No doubt, I am also the first breastfeeding 54-year-old journalist to go this route.

(No, I didn't take my son with me: Myanmar, military dictators, and babies really don't mix.)

This Pregnancy Over 40 story was found on More.com
Read more: Unfortunately the article is no longer available online.
Originally published in MORE print magazine, July/August 2007 as Why a Baby at 53?

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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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