Magda Upton of Sydney started thinking about becoming a mother at the age of 39. She underwent tests and started infertility treatment.
Magda didn’t have a steady partner. She dated men in hopes of meeting someone she could start a family with.
Over time, he could no longer endure the “cake gathering” period. As a result, Magda decided to have a baby through artificial insemination.
She visited many fertility clinics and spent a lot of money but didn’t get the desired results.
At one clinic, doctors suggested she see a psychotherapist to help her accept the possibility that she might not be able to have children.
Over the 10 years from the time of starting treatment, Magda underwent 2.5 IVF cycles, interrupting a third cycle due to ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome. The woman was pregnant twice previously, but both times she lost a baby at about eight weeks old.
She subsequently underwent 13 more fertility treatments to conceive a child, again without success. Magda was desperate and ready to give up. She considered adoption, but would have to wait at least seven years, as single mothers are always at the bottom of the candidate list.
In 2017, Magda went to Cape Town to get two donor embryos. She left nearly $11,000 to the clinic and it was her last chance to become a mother.
When Magda returned to Sydney, she was very nervous, unsure of how the procedure would go. However, she was relieved when her first ultrasound showed she was pregnant with healthy twin girls. In 2018, at the age of 54, Magda gave birth to two daughters.
She is an independent designer, works on her own and spends a lot of time with her daughters. According to her, motherhood at an older age has its advantages.
Our heroine is not interested in gadgets and does not spend most of the day on a mobile phone, like many young mothers.
She devotes all her free time to shared activities with her daughters, such as games, walks and going out to the park.
