Madonna did it, Nicole Kidman and bestie Naomi Watts did it, Gwen Stefani, Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep did it and now breakfast TV favourite Sonia Kruger has done it too.
There’s nothing simple about falling pregnant in your 40s but as Sonia Kruger told Channel 9 MORNINGS co-host Richard Wilkins, “If you really want it enough, there are ways to make it happen. And that’s where I think science is in amazing thing. There are leaps and bounds that are happening in technology every single day and Australia is leading the way in terms of assisted reproduction. It’s a great thing if it can help women to achieve those goals in becoming a mum – feeling that love.”
Read more about Sonia’s journey here and some advice from Psychologist Jo Lamble on falling pregnant in your 40’s here.
Here are some inspirational women who have juggled careers and family life with the ups and downs of trying to fall pregnant in their later years, and succeeded!
Gwen gave birth to a baby boy named Apollo Bowie Flynn Rossdale aged 43.
Mariah Carey welcomed twins Moroccan and Monroe in April 2011 when she was 41.
Julianne Moore was 41 when she welcomed her second child, daughter Liv, in April 2002.
Meryl Streep: The Oscar winner welcomed her fourth child, Louisa Gummer, when she was 41.
Naomi Watts welcomed her second son, Samuel, in December 2008 when Naomi was 40.
Tina Fey gave birth to her second daughter Penelope in 2011 when she was 41.
Have you had your own experience with trying to conceive in your 40’s? Share your thoughts below…
