Tara’s Powerful Journey to Motherhood as a Single Mother by Choice at 42

063. Tara is half English and half American who now lives in New York City. She’s lived in ten countries and recorded the show while visiting family in the Bahamas. Thinking about having children happened decades ago for Tara. In her 30’s Tara calls herself a typical city woman who focused on her career, dated a lot, but no one serious. She ended a five-year relationship at 30, and the question of children was ever present for her. She wasn’t sure if she wanted children, but the idea of freezing her eggs was a way to put the decision off for a while.  At 32, she had the egg retrieval. Tara took her 40th birthday to reflect on her life. If she wanted to have a child, she wanted to decide that soon. She wanted the decision to be a conscious one and didn’t want it to be made for her through her own inaction. She sat down with herself and decided to go for it. Join us as Tara shares how she chose a donor, here amazing pregnancy and her 26-hour birth with an epidural pump that wasn’t turned on. Breastfeeding was the most challenging part of her journey. 

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